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Article: City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara.(Brief Article)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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When O'Hara was hit by a jeep in a freak accident on the beach at Fire Island in 1966, he was 40 years old and at the height of his powers, a poet and personality on the center of the New York art world. O'Hara was electrifying and perceptive, a "punk angel" catalyst who brought together the "New York" schools of painting and poetry: Abstract Expressionist painters Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell; poets John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. Manhattan was O'Hara's muse. Into this vortex veered other movements: the San Francisco Beats and the Black Mountain poets; from it emerged the Pop Art movement of ...
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