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

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"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 ... literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond"--

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780802162137
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 272
  • Udgivet:
  • 18. april 2023
  • Størrelse:
  • 141x20x209 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 242 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 9. december 2024
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"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 ... literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond"--

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