ALSO A DAUGHTER

"Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me" by Ada Calhoun | Grove Press, New York, 2022

I don’t often read memoirs. Yet Ada Calhoun’s “Also A Poet” compelled me because it was so very human, and because it made me feel that the author and I might have something in common. As Walt Whitman said, “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Each of us lives a life characterized by complexity, by layers within layers of identity. The story behind this …