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  Title

  Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me First edition.

  Author

  Calhoun, Ada,  

  Publisher:

  Grove Press,

  Pub date:

  2022.

  Pages:

  259 pages :

  ISBN:

  9780802159786

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Adult Biography.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9780802159786
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    Call number	Copies	Material	Location
    B CAL	1	Adult non-fic hardcover	Adult Biography

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  Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me First edition.
  Calhoun, Ada,
  

  Personal Author:

  Calhoun, Ada,

  Title:

  Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me / Ada Calhoun.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Edition:

  First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

  Physical description:

  259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

  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. 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." -- From publisher's description.

  Personal subject:

  Schjeldahl, Peter.

  Personal subject:

  Calhoun, Ada.

  Personal subject:

  O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966.

  Personal subject:

  Calhoun, Ada. fast (OCoLC)fst01987392

  Personal subject:

  O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966. fast (OCoLC)fst00033933

  Personal subject:

  Schjeldahl, Peter. fast (OCoLC)fst00069464

  Subject term:

  Poets--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Art critics--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Father and child.

  Subject term:

  Parent and child.

  Subject term:

  Art critics. (OCoLC)fst00815508

  Subject term:

  Father and child. (OCoLC)fst00921829

  Subject term:

  Parent and child. (OCoLC)fst01053308

  Subject term:

  Poets. (OCoLC)fst01067778

  Geographic term:

  East Village (New York, N.Y.)

  Geographic term:

  New York (State)--New York--East Village. fast (OCoLC)fst01322878