Frank O'Hara

Frank O'Hara was born Francis Russell O'Hara on March 27, 1926, in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Russell Joseph O'Hara and Katherine Broderick. He grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts and attended St. John's High School.

Lebanon

by Frank O'Hara (1926–66)

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Perhaps he will press his warm lips

to mine in a phrase exceptionally historic,

which seemed to have lived on lips

in Galilee now that I have already felt

its sting. The sweet fetid dust

of his breath will linger upon my lips

as if my understanding were affected and a soul

of passion and arrogant surmise had my lips

for a moment and then passed through my lips

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Frank O'Hara died, 1966

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Question:

What famous twentieth century "Southern" poet advocated permanent racial segregation earlier in his career, only to renounce it later in life and publish a book of interviews with African American leaders, including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Answer

Robert Penn Warren

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