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Prologue
page 4 âIt seemsâ: Letter from FOH to Kenneth Koch, 6/16/58.
âFrankâs headâ: interview with Robert Dash, 9/5/91.
âtwo hundred mournersâ: 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, RenĂ© dâHarnoncourt, 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 âI always feltâ: interview with Edward Gorey, 12/14/89.
âWhy does it seemâ: letter from Joe LeSueur to the author, 2/21/92.
âmany beardedâ: Peter Schjeldahl, âFrank OâHara: âHe Made Things & People Sacred,ââ Village Voice, 8/11/66, reprinted in Homage to Frank OâHara, ed. Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur (Bolinas, Calif.: Big Sky, 1978), 139.
6 âat the funeralâ: Lewis MacAdams, âRed River,â in Homage, 147.
âI feltâ: interview with Joe LeSueur, 5/9â10/88.
âAfter hisâ: interview with Virgil Thomson, 2/2/89.
âitâs well knownâ: âNow That I Am in Madrid and Can Think,â The Collected Poems of Frank OâHara, ed. Donald Allen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), 356.
7 âI never knewâ: interview with Bill Berkson, 10/2/88.
âThat ministerâ: interview with LeSueur, 5/9â10/88.
âFrank OâHaraâ: RenĂ© dâHarnoncourt, Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 7/31/66, 16.
âa godâ: FOH, âLarry Rivers: A Memoir,â Collected Poems, 512.
âstandingâ: Berkson, âAfterword,â in In Memory of My Feelings (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967).
âAmericaâsâ: Schjeldahl, âFrank OâHara,â 139.
âgermâ: interview with Berkson, 10/2/88.
8 like voodoo: interview with James Brodey, 11/11/88.
âAs a poetâ: Schjeldahl, âFrank OâHara,â 139â40.
âfull of dreamsâ: letter from FOH to Fairfield Porter, 7/7/55.
âLarryâsâ: interview with Waldo Rasmussen, 4/25/88.
ârather likeâ: FOH, âLarry Rivers,â 512.
âthe questionâ: âFrank OâHara, 40, Museum Curator,â New York Times, 7/26/66, 35.
9 âyoyo-cartwheel-violencesâ: âInvincibility.â
âLarryâs eulogyâ: interview with Henry Geldzahler, 9/5/91.
âFrank was myâ: Larry Rivers, âSpeech Read at Frank OâHaraâs Funeral,â in Homage, 138.
âPeople had actedâ: interview with Marjorie Luyckx, 9/5/91.
10 âWhat happened?â: interview with Tom Broderick, 3/10/90.
âFrank OâHara wasâ: Rivers, âSpeech,â in Homage, 138.
11 âHe wasâ: interview with LeSueur, 5/9â10/88.
12 âa sort of W. C. Fieldsâ: interview with Joe LeSueur, 4/10/90.
âHe did give the feelingâ: interview with Jane Freilicher, 1/9/90.
13 âI didnât want himâ: interview with Grace Hartigan, 9/13/89.
âIâm leavingâ: interview with Maureen OâHara, 1/18/88.
âAs you knowâ: letter to Philip OâHara, 1/11/63.
âBlondie will always beâ: letter from FOH to family, 12/10/44.
16 âshysterâ: interview with Grafton resident, 4/13/90.
17 âMy mother saidâ: interview with Maureen OâHara, 11/14/88.
âhuge brilliants-encrustedâ: FOH, âAutobiographical Fragments,â in Standing Still and Walking in New York, ed. Don Allen (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), 3.
19 âI am amusedâ: interview with Maureen OâHara, 11/14/88.
âcalm and cool-headedâ: letter from FOH to family, 10/13/44.
âone of the best-known men in townâ: obituary in local Grafton newspaper, 1/25/47.
20 âMy father droveâ: interview with Philip OâHara, 10/19/89.
âan astounding capacityâ: letter from FOH to family, 3/19/45.
âwith hands as big as clubsâ: interview with Philip OâHara, 10/19/89.
21 âHis father soldâ: interview with Tom Broderick, 3/10/90.
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