After the Fall
Poems Old and New
Published on 25. January 2014
217 pages
978-0-8229-9071-0 (ISBN)
Description
After the Fall refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter-the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights in America-as well as his own personal struggles over the indignities of aging.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2007
University of Pittsburgh Press
€24.00
Article not available at the moment
Person
Edward Field is the author of more than ten books of poetry, including Counting Myself Lucky and A Frieze for a Temple of Love, and a memoir, The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era. He is also coauthor of three fiction books (written with Neil Derrick, published under the pseudonym of Bruce Elliot). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the W. H. Auden Award, the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- New Poems
- What Poetry Is For
- Credo
- Homeland Security
- Letter on the Brink of War
- Good-bye to Berlin
- My Favorite President
- In Memory of My Foreskin
- Holding Up the Universe
- Oedipus Schmoedipus
- If This Be Jews
- Too Late
- Mission Accomplished
- What Poetry Is For
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- Dead Man Walking
- Dead Man Walking
- In Praise of My Prostate
- When It Struck Him
- Taking My Breath Away
- Mrs. Wallace Stevens
- Prospero, in Retirement
- After the Fall
- After the Fall
- Selected Poems
- from Stand Up, Friend, With Me (1963)
- Hydra
- Donkeys
- Prologue
- A Journey
- A View of Jersey
- Notes from a Slave Ship
- A Bill to My Father
- The Telephone
- The Statue of Liberty
- Sonny Hugg and the Porcupine
- Graffiti
- Unwanted
- The Sleeper
- At the Coney Island Aquarium: An Ode for Ookie, the Older Walrus Child or The Sibling Rival
- The Charmed Pool
- Ode to Fidel Castro
- from Variety Photoplays (1967)
- Curse of the Cat Woman
- Frankenstein
- The Bride of Frankenstein
- Sweet Gwendolyn and the Countess
- Whatever Happened to May Caspar? A Narration for an Animated Cartoon
- Nancy
- The Life of Joan Crawford
- World War II
- Giant Pacific Octopus
- Tailspin
- from A Full Heart (1973)
- New York
- Being Jewish
- The Lost, Dancing
- David's Dream
- Sharks
- from Stars in My Eyes (1978)
- Mae West
- Comeback
- from New and Selected Poems, from the Book of My Life (1987)
- Triad
- Oh, Brother!
- From Poland
- Narcissus
- Poems on a Theme
- Afghanistan
- To Love
- from Counting Myself Lucky, Poems 1963-1992 (1992)
- The Winners and the Losers
- Waiting for the Communists
- Blinks
- Dietrich
- Hear, O Israel
- Trop Tard Pour Paris
- The Last Bohemians
- World Traveler
- Rule of the Desert
- Sex Among the Savages
- Callas
- The Guide
- Garbo
- from A Frieze for a Temple of Love, Poems 1993-1997 (1998)
- Colombian Gold
- My Sister, the Queen
- Magic Words
- Colossus
- St. Petersburg, 1918
- The Bukowski Option
- from "A Man and His Penis"
- from "My Life as a Dog"
- Sorry, I Never Slept with Allen Ginsberg
- Acknowledgments
