![]() ![]() ![]() It’s actually a tetrahedron from which all kinds of creative characters pop forth. In a rave, the New York Times said: “ Also a Poet is packaged as a love triangle: father, daughter and O’Hara. The result is Also a Poet : Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic literary memoir that is being hailed as one of the best books of 2022. 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. When New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old tapes of interviews that her father - The New Yorker’s celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl - had conducted in the 1970s for a never-completed biography of New York poet Frank O’Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started 40 years earlier. ![]()
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