Sunday, March 22, 2015

ALEX GILDZEN



(This feature is part of TRUCK’s Theme Issue on the List or Catalog Poem. You can go HERE for an Index of the Participating Poets.)



FRANK O'HARA
(lines from "Alex in Movieland")


1963
attends party at Lita Hornick's with Frank O'Hara   Paul Blackburn    Kenneth Brown   Stuart Byron & Alice Neel  

1966
discusses Frank O'Hara with Grace Hartigan during a party in Howard P. Vincent's Harpoon Hall

1971
visits place where Frank O'Hara was struck down

1972
stays with Morris Golde at his Water Island retreat where Frank O'Hara was visiting at time of his death exactly 7 years earlier

1975
views their Joe Brainard/Frank O’Hara collages when James Bridges introduces him to Jack Larson in their Frank Lloyd Wright house

1977
lunches at Yank Sing with James Broughton & Joel Singer before Broughton introduces him to Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights where he purchases Frank O’Hara’s Early Writing & Poems Retrieved

1980
purchases Homage to Frank O’Hara

1991
invokes memory of Frank O’Hara over dinner at home of Maggie Anderson & Anna French

2001
hears Joan La Barbara sing an endless setting of 2 lines of Frank O’Hara

2003
reads Frank O’Hara’s “Rhapsody” to John Ericson while the actor holds the Century Dimes

2005
reads Frank O’Hara’s “Steps” on Greta Garbo’s 100th birthday

2010
discusses Frank O’Hara’s poem abt her mother with Cheryl Crane in the Blossom Room at Hollywood Roosevelt

2014
watches premiere of “Looking” which references Frank O’Hara

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