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Fast Company.(Brad Gooch's Fast Company: The World of Frank O'Hara)
Frank O'Hara lived in New York City for fifteen years, from 1951 until his death, in 1966. In that time, he wrote hundreds of poems, often several a day, hunting and pecking on a portable Royal with great speed. (Trained as a pianist, he called writing "playing the typewriter.") He arrived late in New York, having grown up in Grafton, Massachusetts, attended Harvard after a tour of duty in the Navy, and then spent a year in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a distant planet settled for the manufacture of master's degrees. Big welcomes suited O'Hara, and, in the summer of 1951, he got one: "far from Ypsilanti and Flint," he was greeted by a carful of friends--the poet John Ashbery, the ...
- Worldly wisdom: Brad Gooch wrote his way through the sex-drenched '70s and...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Pela, Robrt L. Stockwell, Anne August 19, 2003 700+ words
...men searching for godlike boyfriends. But how former model Brad Gooch came to be counseling them with books like Dating the Greek...Promiscuity (and turned out a major biography of gay poet Frank O'Hara, City Poet). How does a man get from Promiscuity to Greek...
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- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Giard, Robert,1939-2002--Photographer January 1, 1934 700+ words
- City Poet.(City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Hollins Critic Zinnes, Harriet April 1, 1994 700+ words
...Times of Frank O'Hara. By Brad Gooch. New York: Alfred...fiction? Whatever Brad Gooch's book is on the poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) it...achievement of Frank O'Hara? There is no doubt that Brad Gooch has a wide and intimate...
- Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara:...
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Ford, Mark January 1, 2004 700+ words
...1998), something of an O'Hara critical industry has developed...Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara is the first critical monograph...biographical material contained in Brad Gooch's controversial 1993 biography...Life and Times of Frank O'Hara and David Lehman's The Last...
- City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Boening, John June 22, 1994 700+ words
...narrative of the life of Frank O'Hara, Brad Gooch's rich and affectionate book City...so aptly suggests, how much O'Hara's own vitality helped color and...York in those days without Frank O'Hara. He was--he put himself--at...
- At the movies with Weldon Kees and Frank O'Hara.(A Column)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Yau, John September 1, 2005 700+ words
...decade after Kees vanished, Frank O'Hara was struck by a beach buggy on Fire...The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch (1993). By contrast, Kees's...a cult figure after he died; O'Hara was a cult figure during his lifetime...
- Walking Backward.(Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Wolfe, Gregory May 8, 2009 700+ words
...of Flannery O'Connor Brad Gooch Little, Brown, $30...recent publication of Brad Gooch's much-anticipated...veritable field day. Brad Gooch's book has little of...the gay poet Frank O'Hara) might have engaged O...
- MEMOIR; POET ON THE RUN; A roommate's-eye view of the hyperactive, charismatic...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Peck, Claude April 6, 2003 700+ words
...digresses. LeSueur clearly loved O'Hara and was stung by their parting...unkind words about everyone from O'Hara biographer Brad Gooch to Jack Kerouac (`boorish and...airing that, interestingly, O'Hara always shunned. And that's where...
