An extraordinarily large-hearted work
But female homosexuality had never been an offence in the UK
to imagine a society where every member can have a vibrant
He writes honestly and movingly about his teenage attraction to risk and danger
500 sexual encounters with more than 800 men
Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems crossdressing An extraordinarily large-hearted workFrank O'Hara (1926 66) composed poems 'any time, any place', collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For O'Hara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and exciting, and his poems have an immediacy that draws its energies from the pace and rhythms of city life, and from the contemporary artforms of jazz, film and painting. It is this openness to