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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By Ada Calhoun
Hardcover
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By Ada Calhoun
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A staggering memoir from New York Timesbestselling 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 nevercompleted 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 Ea...