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From 1951 until his untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty lived in new york city, and worked for both for art news and for the museum of modem art, where he. Frank ohara was the voice that spoke to the madness, the chaos, and the contradictions in the cultural transition between 50s and 60s america. Alan watts how to see through the game the secret to life happiness duration. Frank ohara was one of the great poets of the twentie.
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