Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me / Ada Calhoun.
Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me / Ada Calhoun.
By
:
Calhoun, Ada.
Publication Date
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2022
Publication Information
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New York : Grove Press,
Physical Description
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259 p.
Subject Term
:
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Art critics -- United States -- Biography.
Poets -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Bibliography Note
:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 235-254).
Summary
:
When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond.
Language
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English
ISBN
:
9780802159786
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Mount Pearl (AMP) R. King | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B OH1C | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B OH1C | Checked In |