Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference, Homosexuality, Topography

Frank O'Hara’s poems are, according to this work, difficult to situate because his poetry inhabits a shifting, mutable hypertextual site. Hazel Smith argues that the location and dislocation of the cityscape creates hyperscapes in O'Hara’s work: these are postmodern sites characterized by difference, breaking down unified concepts of text, city, subject and art then remoulding them into new textual, subjective and political spaces. This book theorizes the process of disruption and refiguration which constitutes the hyperscape and celebrates its radicality, identifying it as a forerunner to postmodernism.