Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag - And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era

Informationen zum Autor Edward Field s poetry collections include the Lamont Award winning "Stand Up, Friend, With Me;" "Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems, 1963 1992, " which won a Lambda Literary Award; and "A Frieze for a Temple of Love." Field is the editor of the "Alfred Chester Newsletter, "and with his partner, Neil Derrick, is coauthor of the novel "The Villagers. "Field received a Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He lives in New York City." Klappentext Young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. This memoir opens the closet door to reveal some of the most important writers of his time. It brings back a forgotten era, postwar Bohemia, bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and heroic. Zusammenfassung Young Air Force veteran Edward Field! fresh from combat in WWII! threw himself into New York's literary bohemia! searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. This memoir opens the closet door to reveal some of the most important writers of his time. It brings back a forgotten era! postwar Bohemia! bawdy! comical! romantic! sad! and heroic.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Field
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780299213206
• ISBN: 978-0-299-21320-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Au
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies