Poems copyright 1964 by Frank O’Hara, reprinted by permission of City
Books. Thanks to John Kerrigan, executor of the Hugh Sykes Davies estate,
for publication of ‘Poem ‘‘In the stump of the old tree.. .’’’ and to Karen
Koch, executor of Kenneth Koch’s estate, for giving me permission to
quote from ‘Mexico City’ and ‘Coil Supreme’. My thanks also to ex-stu-
dents Michele Sweeney and Amy Tan who I was unable to trace, and to
Lynda Walker for her original graphic design of Secret Places.
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