On Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the Museum of Modern Art.On Looking at "La Grande Jatte," the Czar Wept Anew. The book is dedicated to painter Jane Freilicher. Critics have noted the influence of impressionism and abstract expressionism in the collection, with most of the poems detailing the theme of identity and everyday life in New York City. The name of the book is purported to derive from English poet John Donne's prose work, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, stemming from a joke between O'Hara and other members of the renowned New York School of poets. Its title poem was first printed in the November 1954 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Meditations in an Emergency is a book of poetry by American poet Frank O'Hara, first published by Grove Press in 1957.
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