"The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions."
— Frank O'Hara

January 1, 1970

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Critics from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesArt criticsGay poetsPoets from Baltimore
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Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 34-36) (1960).

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Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 34-36) (1960).