Title: The book of Jon
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Drug addicts, Family, Family relationships, Fathers and daughters, Greek Americans, Homeless persons, Poets, American, Poets
Places: United States
People: Eleni Sikélianòs
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3569.I4128 Z464 2004