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This book is a collection of poems by the famous New York School poet Frank O'Hara, including thirty poems such as "To the Harbor Master," "To the Movie Industry in Times of Distress," "Obstacles," "Yellow Notes," and "From an April." O'Hara's poems adopt colloquial language and an open structure, are improvisational and anti-rational, and have a sense of absurdity and dreaminess in their humor and wit. They highlight the poet's personality and create a poetic style that is anti-elegant and anti-noble. The famous poetry critic Helen Vendler said: "Some of O'Hara's poems really deserve to be famous all over the world, just because there is such a reason around the world: this type of poetry has not yet appeared in the English language."

This book selects 109 poems from all of O'Hara's poems, covering most of his two most original poetry collections, "Meditations in an Emergency" and "Lunchtime Poems". More than 70 poems have been translated into Chinese for the first time.