“Nobody was organized; there was just style, so to speak, rather than movements,” says the critic and novelist Alison Lurie, a close friend of Gorey’s at Harvard and afterward, during his Cambridge period. Kenneth Koch collection of papers, 1974]-1979. Even so, says Gooch, “they were a counterculture,” albeit “an early and élitist form of it”—textbook examples of what the cultural critic Susan Sontag called the “improvised self-elected class, mainly homosexuals, who constitute themselves aristocrats of taste.”. Harvard Dance Center; OFA Jazz Program; Music; Theater; Performance Venues; Practice & Performance Space; Find Music Teachers; Courses. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. To our ears, Helen Gorey’s pat analysis of her son as a mama’s boy, infantilized (and, presumably, sissified) by a smothering mother, sounds like an outtake from the script for Hitchcock’s Psycho. But being a homosexual in 1946, or facing up to the fact that you might be, was surely just a little bit more serious, as problems go, than being heterosexual. In the 1950s, he married Janice Elwood (1931-1981), had a child, Katherine (b. Features recordings from historic archives and live events. Harvard’s expulsions of gay students made the mood of the moment impossible to ignore. They loved her whisky voice.” (Dietrich was to gay culture in the ’40s what Judy Garland would be to later generations of gay men. “He seemed very, very tall, with his hair plastered down across the front like bangs, like a Roman emperor. A sonarman in the United States Navy in World War II, he attended Harvard University, where he met John Ashbery in Ashbery’s last semester as an undergraduate. A writer’s style is inextricable from his way of looking at the world, and Gorey absorbed Firbank’s sensibility along with his style. In 1953 Jason Epstein gave Gorey a job in New York City doing paste-ups and illustrating book covers for a new line of paperbacks at Anchor/Doubleday books. “The idea,” said O’Hara’s friend Genevieve Kennedy, “was to lie down on a chaise longue, get mellow with a few drinks, and listen to Marlene Dietrich records. News & Events Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O’Hara – June 10, 2014 New Paperback Edition of Poems Retreived by Frank O’Hara – May 7, 2013 Selected Poems […] Gruen, John. ), He also took from Firbank what he took from Japanese and Chinese literature, namely, the aesthetic of “leaving things out, being very brief,” to achieve an almost haikulike narrative compression. . . O'Hara's poem of 1953 is the leading example of an attempt to install the European model in contemporary writing, but as Koch writes in his review of The Collected Poems in the New Republic: "For all their use of chance and unconsciousness, Frank O'Hara's poems are unlike Surrealist poetry in that they do not programmatically favor these forces (along with dreams and violence) over the intellectual … Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002. From the description of Frank O'Hara collection of papers, 1955-1966. Gorey and O’Hara continued to swap newly discovered enthusiasms and kindle each other’s obsessions. of Publications. O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966. National Archives and Records Administration. At the Advocate, Koch met the poet John Ashbery, who later introduced him to Frank O’Hara. Other currents of influence in the air were French Surrealist poetry (Paul Valery, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, etc), Japanese Kabuki and Noh, and Hollywood's “guilty pleasures.”, “Standing over six feet tall, thin and gaunt, Gorey accentuated the towering effect of his presence by dressing in long sheepskin-lined canvas coats and sneakers. Sights also donated $1,000.00 to Barack Obama’s 2004 Illinois Senate campaign. Frank O’Hara, American poet who gathered images from an urban environment to represent personal experience. It seems likely that this mounting intolerance toward gays—or, for that matter, any weirdo who came off as “very, very faggoty” (George Montgomery’s first impression of Gorey)—would have unsettled a college student trying to make sense of who he was. Gorey came from a different background – his father was politically connected, a newspaper reporter who may have been an alderman. Copyright © 2018 by Mark Dery Now each had met his match, not just in IQ points but in cultural omnivorousness, creativity, and oblique wit. When Gorey arrived on campus, the Harvard Advocate was defunct, closed in the early 40s by outraged trustees who’d discovered that its editorial board was, for all purposes, a gays only club. Frank O'Hara, the son of Russell Joseph O'Hara and Katherine (née Broderick), was born on March 27, 1926, at Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore and grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts.

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