cover image Hymns of St. Bridget and Other Writings

Hymns of St. Bridget and Other Writings

Frank O'Hara, Amy L. Clark, Bill Berkson. Owl Press, $14 (82pp) ISBN 978-0-9669430-5-4

Poets Frank O'Hara and Bill Berkson collaborated on several works in the early '60s, collected for the first time in Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings. The pieces include a cycle of poems inspired by a church on New York City's Lower East Side (""My heart is corresponding oddly and with odd things and I sometimes wonder if the future holds nothing but the Surgical-Dental Co. and Disney the light is getting dim and a softness is settling over the aluminum appliances and the fire escapes and a fresh green paint over my royal flush heart""), prose poetry created for the 1961 New York City Ballet program and a play about a transatlantic flight. (Mar.)