Alabel’s Reviews > Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me > Status Update

so far I’m not sure. it’s compelling of course and enjoyable, but the storytelling is circular which may be intentional but ends up feeling like she reordered the chapters halfway through editing the book and didn’t check for narrative consistency. And she’s always spelling out the most obvious bottom line. And pls don’t play woke and then lump in grace Hartigan with the other carousing members of the NYS