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Frank
O’Hara
(Wikipedia)
Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara
(March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966)
was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum
of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world.
O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure in the New York School, an
informal group of artists, writers, and musicians who drew inspiration
from jazz, surrealism, abstract expressionism, action painting, and
contemporary avant-garde art movements ... .
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Portrait of Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), 1966, by Grace Hartigan
Painting (oil on linen) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Grace Hartigan (1922-2008).
Leading
Frank O'Hara Scholar: Andrew Epstein
Professor Epstein is
currently
editing Frank
O’Hara In Context (Cambridge University Press),
which will consist of about 40 essays by leading scholars of
O’Hara and American poetry, both well-established and
emerging. The book aims to offer an unprecedented, comprehensive
understanding of O’Hara’s work, life, and influence
by locating him within a wide array of contexts and critical frames.
The
Poetry Foundation: Frank O’Hara [1926—1966]
O'Hara was a dynamic
leader of the "New York School" of poets ... from the beginning his
poetry was engaged with the worlds of music, dance, and painting ...
and during his lifetime he was known as "a poet among painters".
Locus
Solus: The New York School of Poets
News, links, resources,
and commentary on poets and artists of the New York School, by Andrew
Epstein.
Poetry
News: Happy day-after-Bloomsday (June 17) in 2015!
Frank O'Hara found
Himself in Stephen Dedalus ... Andrew Epstein wrote about Frank
O'Hara's love for James Joyce's Ulysses
at Locus Solus.
Frank
O’Hara and James Joyce, on Bloomsday (June 16, 2015)
Soon after Frank
O’Hara discovered James Joyce’s writing in high
school, Joyce quickly became one of O’Hara’s heroes
... Joyce remained a touchstone for O’Hara throughout his
career,
Andrew Epstein wrote at
Locus Solus.
Frank
O’Hara (1926–1966): His 'SUPER GAY POEM' (2025)
A sample from:
Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems, The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England,
2025; see the Introduction and the first chapter (Frank O'Hara:
Homosexuality).
Mel
Brooks' The Producers
(video 'Keep it Gay', part I)
In James Joyce's 1922
masterpiece, Ulysses,
the phrase "womanly man" is famously applied to the protagonist,
Leopold Bloom. In Mel Brooks' The
Producers - Keep It Gay (1967 and 2005), an accountant
Leopold Bloom (addressed as "Leo") has been named after his namesake in
Joyce's Ulysses.
Mel Brooks' The Producers (video 'Keep it Gay', part II)
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