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
Island--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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