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Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Paperback)
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Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Paperback)
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Loot Price R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
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A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada
Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their
shared obsession with a great poetWhen 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. Also a Poet
explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents,
yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet
mistrust it. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as
providing new insights into the life of one of our most important
poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and
children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave
behind.
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