Автор: Gooch Brad Название: City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O`Hara ISBN: 0062303414 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062303417 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1984.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
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The definitive biography of Frank O Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s.
City Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the years when it became the epicenter of the art world, and illuminates the poet and artist at its heart. Brad Gooch traces Frank O Hara s life from his parochial Catholic childhood to World War II, through his years at Harvard and New York. He brilliantly portrays O Hara in in his element, surrounded by a circle of writers and artists who would transform America s cultural landscape: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, and John Ashbery.
Gooch brings into focus the artistry and influence of a life of guts and wit and style and passion (Luc Sante) that was tragically abbreviated in 1966 when O Hara, just forty and at the height of his creativity, was hit and killed by a jeep on the beach at Fire Island a death that marked the end of an exceptional career and a remarkable era.
City Poet is illustrated with 55 black and white photographs."
Автор: Gooch Brad Название: Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the `70s & the `80s ISBN: 0062354965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062354969 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City--a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions--with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others legendary artists.
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of this exhilarating time and place. At its center is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply of emotions, from blazing ecstasy to bleakest despair.
As both men try to reconcile love and fidelity with the irresistible desire to enjoy the freedom of the age, they live together and apart. Gooch works briefly as a model in Milan, then returns to the city and discovers his vocation as an artist. Brookner falls ill with a mysterious virus that soon has a terrifying name: AIDS. And the story, and life in the city, is suddenly overshadowed by this new demon plague that will ravage a generation and transform the creative world. Gooch charts the progress of Brookner through his illness, and writes unforgettably about endings: of a great talent, a passionate love affair, and an incandescent era.
Beautifully written, full of rich detail and poignant reflection, recalling a time and a place and group of friends with affection and clarity, Smash Cut is an extraordinary memoir and an exquisite account of an epoch.
Illustrated with 30 black-and-white photographs.
--Andrew Tobias, author of The Best Little Boy in the World
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