‘Midwood’ is both intimate and distanced. It offers us access to dreams and erotic experience; it keeps us at a remove through irony and syntactical oddity.
In Ada Calhoun’s ‘Also a Poet,’ writing a biography of Frank O’Hara is really a way of writing an autobiography of Calhoun’s relationship with her father.
“The land is wide and made of stone. / The horizon is unseen, but also rock. The excited, / fearful cheers, too, are grain / beside grain of lime-stone.”
