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Author:

Calhoun, Ada, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Grove Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Schjeldahl, Peter.
Calhoun, Ada.
O'Hara, Frank,--1926-1966.
Poets--Biography.
Art critics--Biography.
Father and child.
Parent and child.
Autobiographies.
East Village (New York, N.Y.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical 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. 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.

ISBN:

0802159788
9780802159786

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1281655067

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

YAPC771 -- Bondurant Community Library (Bondurant)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)