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Frank O'Hara's short life, somewhat surprisingly, does not always make for the best reading. The poet laureate of 1950s bohemian New York passed his first 20 years in relative quiet, leading a withdrawn existence in a small Massachussetts town. And despite the assurance on the book jacket of Brad Gooch's City Poet that O'Hara's accidental death at 40 struck down a poet "at the height of his powers," this book portrays these last years as more consumed by depression and alcoholism than creative passion...
...early years and his startingly unconfrontational outlook. In those years, the poet conformed at least externally to American middle class expectations, escorting girl-friends to prom, enlisting for service in World War II, writing home affectionate letters filled with responsible advice for his younger siblings. Although filled with vague bohemian aspirations and troubled by his homosexuality, O'Hara showed little indication that he would become the master of a sophisticated, eclectic poetic style, a sympathizer with radical aesthetics and politics and a folk hero of New York's 50s art scene...
Once she had received her on-the-job training from Madam Alex, Heidi struck out on her own. She started small, operating out of a modest little house in Los Angeles' bohemian Melrose district. She was a familiar sight at On the Rox, a swanky Hollywood nightclub, where her friend Victoria Sellers served as a hostess. "Heidi would be with a group of girls in the corner," recalls an observer. "You'd see her get up and talk to a guy by the bar, then she'd go back and get a girl, and then the girl would go over...
...proceeding under way in another state. As for Iowa, more than 20 years ago, the state supreme court raised eyebrows nationwide when it ruled that a churchgoing set of grandparents would provide a better life for a young child than the child's father, who was living as a bohemian in California. States everywhere reacted by writing laws to clarify paternal rights -- and Iowa wrote one declaring that biological parents have custodial rights unless a child has been abandoned. Only then are "the best interests of the child" considered. That meant that Daniel Schmidt, who never abandoned Jessica, had custodial...
...Harvard was a very different place back then," said Brodsky, who started working for his family's business at the age of 13. "It was more of a bohemian and hipper kind of a place...