Poems
By: Frank O'Hara ; with lithographs by Willem de Kooning
Contributors: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997, ill; Shiff, Ben, ed; Carr, Dan, 1951-2012; Ferrari, Julia; Larson, Arthur (Printer); Golgonooza Letter Foundry; Wild Carrot Letterpress; Trestle Editions; Wingate Studio; Renaissance Press; Limited Editions Club; Limited Editions Club Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Published: 1988
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Work titles: Poems
Notes: "The text has been set in English Monotype Bodoni 135 by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr at Golgonooza Letterfoundry and hand-composed by Arthur Larson ... The text has been printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress ... The mylars were transferred to lithographic plates at America Atelier by Benjamin Shiff and printed under his direction at Trestle Editions .... The prints were hand-torn and applied with intaglio presses to the text pages at Wingate Studio and Renaissance Press. The book was designed and edited by Benjamin Shiff"--Colophon.

Limited edition of 550 copies, signed by the artist.

Issued in drop-back box.

LC has copy no. 1 in drop-back box, with prospectus (no. 561, Sept. 1989) of Limited Editions Club laid in.

Acquired as part of an archival set from the publisher in 2008.
Table of contents: title: Ode to Willem de Kooning; title: Autobiographia literaria; title: A young poet; title: America; title: The man without a country; title: Theseus; title: How to get there; title: Poem "À la recherche d' Gertrude Stein"; title: Poem; title: Hotel Transylvanie; title: In favor of one's time; title: You are gorgeous and I'm coming.