By Frank O'Hara
288 pages; Knopf
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Fatally struck by a dune buggy on Fire Island at age 40, this iconic New York poet was exuberant and magnanimous, and never took himself too seriously: "And here I am, the / center of all beauty! / writing these poems! / Imagine!"

— Carmela Ciuraru