“In 15 years as a poet, playwright, critic, curator, and universal energy source in the lives of the few hundred most creative people in America, Frank O’Hara had rendered that world wholly unprepared to tolerate his passing.”
Originally published August 11, 1966
Rocky was no philistine precursor to the Tea Party ("Rockefeller Republican" — socially liberal, fiscally conservative — was not always a pejorative in the GOP), but he did suffer from the arrogance of inherited wealth.
Originally published April 30, 2014