Q: Also A Poet starts out as a book about Frank O’Hara and ends up being about you. She comes to terms with growing up in her father’s shadow and comes to an understanding of how she shaped herself.įor The National Book Review, Kylie Gellatly spoke with Calhoun about her father and O’Hara, and how ultimately O’Hara brought father and daughter together. Weaving transcripts of Schjeldahl’s interviews with O’Hara into her own research, Calhoun shines a bright new light on the poet’s life and work while also gleaning a new understanding of herself. When Calhoun happened upon her father’s interview tapes with O’Hara in the basement where they had languished for forty years, she learned of his failed project and embarked on her own.
Schjeldahl once attempted to write a definitive biography of the poet who has been a favorite of both father and daughter. Now Calhoun extends her capacious curiosity, journalistic acumen, and poetic sensibility to focus on poet Frank O’Hara and her father Peter Schjeldahl - venerated art critic for The New Yorker - and in the process, herself. In previous books, Calhoun has chronicled the East Village neighborhood of her childhood, considered women in the crisis of mid-life, and written about the institution of marriage.
light, medium, heavy or charting.In Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me (Grove), Ada Calhoun entwines memoir, literary history, and biography into gorgeous narrative. You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 60 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting-e.g. wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library.
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