Hymns of St. Bridget and Other Writings

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.)