City Poet
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City Poet

Brad Gooch

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Brad Gooch

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The definitive biography of Frank O'Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York's cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s.

City Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the years when it became the epicenter of the art world, and illuminates the poet and artist at its heart. Brad Gooch traces Frank O'Hara's life from his parochial Catholic childhood to World War II, through his years at Harvard and New York. He brilliantly portrays O'Hara in in his element, surrounded by a circle of writers and artists who would transform America's cultural landscape: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, and John Ashbery.

Gooch brings into focus the artistry and influence of a life "of guts and wit and style and passion" (Luc Sante) that was tragically abbreviated in 1966 when O'Hara, just forty and at the height of his creativity, was hit and killed by a jeep on the beach at Fire Islandā€”a death that marked the end of an exceptional career and a remarkable era.

City Poet is illustrated with 55 black and white photographs.

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2014
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9780062303424
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Prologue
page 4 ā€œIt seemsā€: Letter from FOH to Kenneth Koch, 6/16/58.
ā€œFrankā€™s headā€: interview with Robert Dash, 9/5/91.
ā€œtwo 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© dā€™Harnoncourt, 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 ā€œI always feltā€: interview with Edward Gorey, 12/14/89.
ā€œWhy does it seemā€: letter from Joe LeSueur to the author, 2/21/92.
ā€œmany beardedā€: Peter Schjeldahl, ā€œFrank Oā€™Hara: ā€˜He Made Things & People Sacred,ā€™ā€ Village Voice, 8/11/66, reprinted in Homage to Frank Oā€™Hara, ed. Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur (Bolinas, Calif.: Big Sky, 1978), 139.
6 ā€œat the funeralā€: Lewis MacAdams, ā€œRed River,ā€ in Homage, 147.
ā€œI feltā€: interview with Joe LeSueur, 5/9ā€“10/88.
ā€œAfter hisā€: interview with Virgil Thomson, 2/2/89.
ā€œitā€™s well knownā€: ā€œNow That I Am in Madrid and Can Think,ā€ The Collected Poems of Frank Oā€™Hara, ed. Donald Allen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), 356.
7 ā€œI never knewā€: interview with Bill Berkson, 10/2/88.
ā€œThat ministerā€: interview with LeSueur, 5/9ā€“10/88.
ā€œFrank Oā€™Haraā€: RenĆ© dā€™Harnoncourt, Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 7/31/66, 16.
ā€œa godā€: FOH, ā€œLarry Rivers: A Memoir,ā€ Collected Poems, 512.
ā€œstandingā€: Berkson, ā€œAfterword,ā€ in In Memory of My Feelings (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967).
ā€œAmericaā€™sā€: Schjeldahl, ā€œFrank Oā€™Hara,ā€ 139.
ā€œgermā€: interview with Berkson, 10/2/88.
8 like voodoo: interview with James Brodey, 11/11/88.
ā€œAs a poetā€: Schjeldahl, ā€œFrank Oā€™Hara,ā€ 139ā€“40.
ā€œfull of dreamsā€: letter from FOH to Fairfield Porter, 7/7/55.
ā€œLarryā€™sā€: interview with Waldo Rasmussen, 4/25/88.
ā€œrather likeā€: FOH, ā€œLarry Rivers,ā€ 512.
ā€œthe questionā€: ā€œFrank Oā€™Hara, 40, Museum Curator,ā€ New York Times, 7/26/66, 35.
9 ā€œyoyo-cartwheel-violencesā€: ā€œInvincibility.ā€
ā€œLarryā€™s eulogyā€: interview with Henry Geldzahler, 9/5/91.
ā€œFrank was myā€: Larry Rivers, ā€œSpeech Read at Frank Oā€™Haraā€™s Funeral,ā€ in Homage, 138.
ā€œPeople had actedā€: interview with Marjorie Luyckx, 9/5/91.
10 ā€œWhat happened?ā€: interview with Tom Broderick, 3/10/90.
ā€œFrank Oā€™Hara wasā€: Rivers, ā€œSpeech,ā€ in Homage, 138.
11 ā€œHe wasā€: interview with LeSueur, 5/9ā€“10/88.
12 ā€œa sort of W. C. Fieldsā€: interview with Joe LeSueur, 4/10/90.
ā€œHe did give the feelingā€: interview with Jane Freilicher, 1/9/90.
13 ā€œI didnā€™t want himā€: interview with Grace Hartigan, 9/13/89.
ā€œIā€™m leavingā€: interview with Maureen Oā€™Hara, 1/18/88.
ā€œAs you knowā€: letter to Philip Oā€™Hara, 1/11/63.
ā€œBlondie will always beā€: letter from FOH to family, 12/10/44.
16 ā€œshysterā€: interview with Grafton resident, 4/13/90.
17 ā€œMy mother saidā€: interview with Maureen Oā€™Hara, 11/14/88.
ā€œhuge brilliants-encrustedā€: FOH, ā€œAutobiographical Fragments,ā€ in Standing Still and Walking in New York, ed. Don Allen (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), 3.
19 ā€œI am amusedā€: interview with Maureen Oā€™Hara, 11/14/88.
ā€œcalm and cool-headedā€: letter from FOH to family, 10/13/44.
ā€œone of the best-known men in townā€: obituary in local Grafton newspaper, 1/25/47.
20 ā€œMy father droveā€: interview with Philip Oā€™Hara, 10/19/89.
ā€œan astounding capacityā€: letter from FOH to family, 3/19/45.
ā€œwith hands as big as clubsā€: interview with Philip Oā€™Hara, 10/19/89.
21 ā€œHis father soldā€: interview with Tom Broderick, 3/10/90.
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