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City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara

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Availability:In StockContributor:Brad GoochPublish date:2014-05-13Pages:576
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780062303417ISBN-10:62303414UPC:9780062303417Book Category:Non-Classifiable, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Non-Classifiable, Literary Figures, LGBTQ+Size:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCTB44HYXS

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780062303417ISBN-10:62303414UPC:9780062303417Book Category:Non-Classifiable, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Non-Classifiable, Literary Figures, LGBTQ+Size:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCTB44HYXS
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Brad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biographies City Poet and Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, as well as other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, he earned his PhD at Columbia University and is a professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Brad Gooch

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