![]() ![]() José Murilo de Carvalho, 83, Brazilian historian, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, COVID-19.Patricia Bredin, 88, English actress ( Left Right and Centre, The Treasure of Monte Cristo) and singer ( Eurovision Song Contest 1957).Clarence Avant, 92, American Hall of Fame music executive and film producer ( Save the Children, Jason's Lyric), founder of Sussex Records.László Zarándi, 94, Hungarian athlete, sprinter, Olympic bronze medalist ( 1952).Brian Snowdon, 88, English footballer ( Millwall, Portsmouth, Detroit Cougars).Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, 83, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, and convicted war criminal, MP (1996–2006).Petch Osathanugrah, 69, Thai singer-songwriter, president of Bangkok University, heart failure.Andrei Nikolayev, 85, Russian clown, artistic director and teacher.Louis Mexandeau, 92, French politician, minister of posts (1981–1986) and three-time deputy.Sultan Mahmud, 79, Bangladeshi military officer, chief of air staff (1981–1987).Jerome Hauer, 71, American civil servant, director of the New York City Emergency Management (1996–2000), cancer.Boris Dubrovskiy, 83, Russian rower, Olympic champion ( 1964).Jessica Cash, 84, British soprano and voice coach.Bobby Baun, 86, Canadian ice hockey player ( Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals).Rodion Amirov, 21, Russian ice hockey player ( Salavat Yulaev Ufa), brain cancer.Francesco Alberoni, 93, Italian journalist ( Corriere della Sera) and sociologist, chairman of RAI (2004–2005), kidney disease.Yoon Ki-jung, 91, South Korean economist.Vladimir Timoshinin, 53, Russian Olympic diver ( 1988, 1996).Bindeshwar Pathak, 80, Indian sociologist, founder of Sulabh International, cardiac arrest.Mohammed Habib, 74, Indian footballer ( East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, national team), complications from Parkinson's disease and dementia.Léa Garcia, 90, Brazilian actress ( Black Orpheus, Os Bandeirantes, The Greatest Love of All).Ursula Cantieni, 75, Swiss-German actress ( Die Fallers – Die SWR Schwarzwaldserie).Klaus Bugdahl, 88, German road and track cyclist.Renata Scotto, 89, Italian operatic soprano.Viktor Karamazov, 89, Belorussian writer.When at last I meet exhaustion in these flowers, go straight up. It’s a sacred duty, like being in love with an ape,Īnd eventually I’ll reach some great conclusion, like assumption, So this is the devil’s dance? Well I was born to dance. There’s nothing so spiritual about being happyīut you can’t miss a day of it, because it doesn’t last. ![]() To turn away from the sun - it loves it there. When I die, don’t come, I wouldn’t want a leaf Lastly, here are some lines from O’Hara’s “ Poem (And tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock in Spingfield, Massachussetts”): The opening pages of Brad Gooch’s City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara feature a detailed description of the funeral, and also mention that an early edition of this New York Times article (which I recall I once had a copy of, but now can’t locate) contained “a snide line” about the “many bearded, tieless friends of Mr. Two days later, the New York Times also covered O’Hara’s funeral in an article entitled “200 Pay Tribute to Frank O’Hara.” Among other things, the piece discusses Larry Rivers’s famously shocking and graphic eulogy and John Ashbery’s moving recitation of “To the Harbormaster,” while managing to misspell the names of John Ashbery, Edwin Denby, and David Shapiro. ![]() (It also says he was “struck by a taxicab,” which was not in fact the case - he was run over by a dune buggy driven illegally on the beach by a young guy on a date). The obituary discusses his work on the painter Robert Motherwell and the controversy over Larry Rivers’s nude portrait of O’Hara, before turning to mention his poetry. Although it may be hard to believe now, at the time of his sudden death, O’Hara was better known as an art-world figure than a poet. As I always point out to my students, the headline tells you quite a bit about O’Hara’s reputation at the time of his death: “Frank O’Hara, 40, Museum Curator,” with the subheadline “Exhibitions Aide at Modern Art Dies - Also a Poet.” Today, I thought I’d put up a copy of the obituary that ran in the New York Times on July 26, 1966, a document that is not so readily available. Last year at this time, I wrote a post about the wealth of fine elegies for O’Hara that appeared following his death, by poets like Allen Ginsberg, James Schuyler, David Shapiro, Ron Padgett, and others. 48 years ago today, Frank O’Hara died in a tragic accident on Fire Island, New York. ![]()
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