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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me Hardcover - 2022

by Ada Calhoun


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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 poet

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.

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  • Title Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  • Author Ada Calhoun
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press
  • Date 2022-06-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780802159786 / 0802159788
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 5.98 x 1.34 in (23.01 x 15.19 x 3.40 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - 20th century - History, Women journalists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022023659
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2022, Page 14
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2022, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2022, Page 91
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/2022, Page 23
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/18/2022, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 06/15/2022, Page 0

About the author

Ada Calhoun is the New York Times bestselling author of St. Marks Is Dead, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and Why We Can't Sleep. She has written for the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Washington Post.

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