Great Regulars: Few who enjoyed [Frank] O'Hara's presence

in the avant-garde scene seem to have noticed that his jokes, gossip, and wild associative leaps tended to culminate in sermons about the ultimate value of one-to-one relations. "The only truth is face to face," he wrote in "Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets," a poem partly about the prejudicial falsehoods that blur individual faces.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Frank O'Hara: Selected Poems by Frank O'hara

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