[New-Poetry] O'HARA: THE POETICS OF COTERIE

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http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=19540#Scene_1  
   FRANK O'HARA: THE POETICS OF COTERIE BY LYTLE SHAW. IOWA CITY: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS, 2006. 332 PAGES. $40.
 
THINGS HAPPENED around Frank O’Hara. At his death in 1966, he was known as much for his nonstop social presence at the center of a group—a coterie, aesthetic tendency, or even school—of ’50s and ’60s abstract painters and poets as for his poetry and art criticism. The 1971 publication of his six-hundred-page Collected Poems thus came as something of a surprise to readers who had a better sense of O’Hara’s celebrity than of his published poetry,
 
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