Fiction
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
A trade paperback of Brad Gooch's 1993 biography, the book that mapped Frank O'Hara's life from Worcester to the Cedar Tavern to the Hamptons with the cooperation of the poet's surviving friends. Gooch is methodical about the love affairs, the day jobs at the Museum of Modern Art, and the collision of Abstract Expressionism with the New York School. The paperback is the standard literary biography size, with a photograph on the cover and the dense type that suggests the research will not be rushed. It is the kind of biography that makes a subculture feel like a small town. Ideal reader: the reader who believes O'Hara's poems cannot be separated from the lunches, rivalries, and sidewalk conversations that produced them.
$8.00
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Pittsburgh, PA
Est. delivery
3–5 business days
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