City Poet (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brad Gooch
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1926-1966
- Setting: Massachusetts, Michigan, New York City, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Francis (Frank) O’Hara, Larry Rivers, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, Jane Freilicher, Vincent Warren
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Painting or painters, Catholics or Catholic Church
- Locales: New York, NY, Europe, Michigan, Massachusetts
Since his accidental death in 1966 at the age of forty, Frank O’Hara has been surrounded by a gauze of myth that has effectively silenced serious evaluation of his poetry and sustained documentation of his life. Only Marjorie Perloff’s careful and important study of his work in relation to contemporary New York artists and modernist writers, Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters (1977), succeeds in clearing a path through the tangle of anecdotes in which O’Hara has mostly lived. In various memoirs he has been portrayed as an intensely vital urban sprite who nevertheless...
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