"This collection brings together for the first time all of the poems that hve so far been discovered - more than five hundred - which Frank O'Hara wrote in his lifetime. They reflect his growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verse that he began writing in the late 1940s to his last years, when his poems became awesomely individual and reflective." -- from interior flap. Edited by Donald Allen, with an introduction by John Ashbery. Includes a short chronology. Printed in black-and-white.