A famous father casts shadows over painful memoir
A famous father casts shadows over painful memoir In 'Poetic License,' the daughter of poet Richard Eberhart works to reconcile the love and loathing he inspired. By Jeri Theriault Share When she was a little girl, Gretchen Cherington, the daughter of poet Richard Eberhart, spent every summer with her family at Undercliff, a Down East cottage in Brooksville, Maine. Her parents loved to host parties and these idyllic summers included a steady parade of visitors drawn from the glitterati of 20th-century American letters – Mary McCarthy, Cal Lowell, Phil Booth, E.B. White, Donald Hall, Walke...