The book of Jon
By: by Eleni Sikelianos.
Publisher: City Lights
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Sikélianòs, Eleni -- Family; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Drug addicts -- United States -- Biography; Homeless persons -- United States -- Biography; Fathers and daughters -- United States; Greek Americans -- Biography
Genres: Family relationships.; Biography.
Description: "With a seamless weave of letters, reminiscences, poems, and journal entries, Eleni Sikelianos creates a loving portrait - and an unblinking indictment - of her father, Jon: a talented musician, a high school dropout, an autodidact descendent of Greek nobility, and, for much of his life, a drug addict. An eccentric visionary, he emerges as a brilliant, irresponsible, frustrating, and ultimately tragic figure. In 2001, after three years of homelessness on the streets of Albuquerque, he died in a motel room from an overdose."--BOOK JACKET.