Lunch Poems - City Lights Pocket Poets Author:Frank O'Hara Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. — Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darke... more »ned ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.« less