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Prologue
page 4 āIt seemsā: Letter from FOH to Kenneth Koch, 6/16/58.
āFrankās headā: interview with Robert Dash, 9/5/91.
ātwo hundred mournersā: An incomplete list of those attending the funeral includes: William Agee, John Ashbery, William Berkson, Ted and Sandy Berrigan, Sheyla Beykal, Norman and Carey Bluhm, James Brodey, Harold Brodkey, Robert Cato, Joseph Ceravolo, Jerry Cohen, Robert Dash, Edwin Denby, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, RenĆ© dāHarnoncourt, Karen Edwards, Frederick English, Morton Feldman, Helen Franc, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, B. H. and Abbie Friedman, Sanford Friedman, Henry Geldzahler, Allen Ginsberg, Mike Goldberg, Robert Goldwater, Tatyana Grosman, John Gruen, Barbara Guest, Philip Guston, Stephen Holden, Richard Howard, Sam Hunter, Irma Hurley, Howard and Mary Kanowitz, Alex and Ada Katz, Kenneth and Janice Koch, Lee Krasner, Ibram and Ernestine Lassaw, Frank Lima, Joseph LeSueur, Alfred Leslie, Joseph Lieber, Luke Matthiessen, Camilla McGrath, Kynaston McShine, J. J. Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, John Bernard Myers, Reuben Nakian, Barnett and Annalee Newman, Ellen (Adler) and David Oppenheim, Lafcadio Orlovsky, Peter Orlovsky, Larry Osgood, Robert Perrell, Waldo and Gary Rasmussen, Larry and Clarice Rivers, Gaby Rodgers, Harold and May Rosenberg, Sheila Rosenstein, Irving Sandler, Peter and Linda Schjeldahl, David Shapiro, Jack Smith, Patsy Southgate, James Thrall Soby, Tony Towle, Chuck Turner, Mindy Wager, Arnold Weinstein, Monroe Wheeler, Jane Wilson, and Marta Zogbaum.
5 āI always feltā: interview with Edward Gorey, 12/14/89.
āWhy does it seemā: letter from Joe LeSueur to the author, 2/21/92.
āmany beardedā: Peter Schjeldahl, āFrank OāHara: āHe Made Things & People Sacred,āā Village Voice, 8/11/66, reprinted in Homage to Frank OāHara, ed. Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur (Bolinas, Calif.: Big Sky, 1978), 139.
6 āat the funeralā: Lewis MacAdams, āRed River,ā in Homage, 147.
āI feltā: interview with Joe LeSueur, 5/9ā10/88.
āAfter hisā: interview with Virgil Thomson, 2/2/89.
āitās well knownā: āNow That I Am in Madrid and Can Think,ā The Collected Poems of Frank OāHara, ed. Donald Allen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), 356.
7 āI never knewā: interview with Bill Berkson, 10/2/88.
āThat ministerā: interview with LeSueur, 5/9ā10/88.
āFrank OāHaraā: RenĆ© dāHarnoncourt, Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 7/31/66, 16.
āa godā: FOH, āLarry Rivers: A Memoir,ā Collected Poems, 512.
āstandingā: Berkson, āAfterword,ā in In Memory of My Feelings (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967).
āAmericaāsā: Schjeldahl, āFrank OāHara,ā 139.
āgermā: interview with Berkson, 10/2/88.
8 like voodoo: interview with James Brodey, 11/11/88.
āAs a poetā: Schjeldahl, āFrank OāHara,ā 139ā40.
āfull of dreamsā: letter from FOH to Fairfield Porter, 7/7/55.
āLarryāsā: interview with Waldo Rasmussen, 4/25/88.
ārather likeā: FOH, āLarry Rivers,ā 512.
āthe questionā: āFrank OāHara, 40, Museum Curator,ā New York Times, 7/26/66, 35.
9 āyoyo-cartwheel-violencesā: āInvincibility.ā
āLarryās eulogyā: interview with Henry Geldzahler, 9/5/91.
āFrank was myā: Larry Rivers, āSpeech Read at Frank OāHaraās Funeral,ā in Homage, 138.
āPeople had actedā: interview with Marjorie Luyckx, 9/5/91.
10 āWhat happened?ā: interview with Tom Broderick, 3/10/90.
āFrank OāHara wasā: Rivers, āSpeech,ā in Homage, 138.
11 āHe wasā: interview with LeSueur, 5/9ā10/88.
12 āa sort of W. C. Fieldsā: interview with Joe LeSueur, 4/10/90.
āHe did give the feelingā: interview with Jane Freilicher, 1/9/90.
13 āI didnāt want himā: interview with Grace Hartigan, 9/13/89.
āIām leavingā: interview with Maureen OāHara, 1/18/88.
āAs you knowā: letter to Philip OāHara, 1/11/63.
āBlondie will always beā: letter from FOH to family, 12/10/44.
16 āshysterā: interview with Grafton resident, 4/13/90.
17 āMy mother saidā: interview with Maureen OāHara, 11/14/88.
āhuge brilliants-encrustedā: FOH, āAutobiographical Fragments,ā in Standing Still and Walking in New York, ed. Don Allen (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), 3.
19 āI am amusedā: interview with Maureen OāHara, 11/14/88.
ācalm and cool-headedā: letter from FOH to family, 10/13/44.
āone of the best-known men in townā: obituary in local Grafton newspaper, 1/25/47.
20 āMy father droveā: interview with Philip OāHara, 10/19/89.
āan astounding capacityā: letter from FOH to family, 3/19/45.
āwith hands as big as clubsā: interview with Philip OāHara, 10/19/89.
21 āHis father soldā: interview with Tom Broderick, 3/10/90.
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