A Walk with Frank O'Hara

Susan Aizenberg is the author of the poetry collections Quiet City and Muse and the coeditor of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women.

A Walk with Frank O’Hara
Hunger
Sympathetic Magic
Song
The Beautiful American Word Baby
There but for Fortune
Eleanor Remembers Her Soldier
Eleanor Can’t Sleep
La Liseuse
In My Other Life My Mother Fails
Michael Corleone Prepares for Bed
Western
Tea Boys
Jane County Corrections
Errata


II
Charm against Recollection
The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes
This Morning My Friend Writes
Poem Beginning with a Line from Louis Simpson
Childhood
Dish Pigs
only here. only now.
Ode
At the Chicago Art Institute
From Her Chair in a Hoop of Pale-Yellow Lamplight
Shameeka
Three Rispetti
Poem Beginning with a Line from Adelia Prado
First Light
People Knew How to Dress in the Forties


III
Monday
For Ruth Ellis, Last Woman Hanged in England
Not One Woman I Know Hasn’t These Stories
On Reading That, According to the Jewish Calendar, Days Begin with Night
Now That You’re Nowhere
Blackhawk Park
Postcard from New Hampshire
Autobiographobia
On Your Wedding Day You Must Fast and Weep: A Found Poem
Lines Written during a Pandemic
Forced March
After Reading the News this Morning, I Turn to the Curses of My Ancestors: A Found Poem
Dream Poem Beginning with Three Lines from Stephen Dunn
This Side
On Prospect


Acknowledgments
Notes