This volume brings together twenty-four of O'Hara's plays, from one-act dramas to brief "eclogues."While several were produced in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, most are intended as poetic works cast in dramatic form. With his interest in camp, collage, and dramatic and verse forms, O'Hara created characters that range from classical figures (Daphnis and Chloe) to historical personalities (Benjamin Franklin and a thinly disguised General MacArthur) to his own contemporaries (Jackson Pollack, Ted Berrigan, and others). Like collections of his poetry, 'Amorous Nightmares of Delay' captures the irreverent voice and joyful lyricism of one of America's great authors. An introduction by O'Hara's longtime friend Joe LeSueur places the works in the context of New York's extraordinary art and literary scene of the 1950s and early 1960s.
- ISBN10 0801855292
- ISBN13 9780801855290
- Publish Date 26 February 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 23 February 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition Johns Hopkins Pbk ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 230
- Language English