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Sto caricando le informazioni... Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Medi Ada Calhoun
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I loved this book. I heard Calhoun interviewed which inspired me to finally pick this up. This is the story of the evolution of Calhoun's idea to write a biography of Frank O'Hara, something her father attempted, after she finds cassette tapes of interviews he had done. This evolution brings it around to her examination of her East Village childhood, her reactions to her father's complex personality and seeing her father as he is, not as who she wants him to be. Through the interview recordings and her own NYC life, she paints a picture of NYC past and present. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: 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. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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