Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag

And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Av Edward Field, Amy L. Rosebrough, David Bergman, Joan Larkin

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Long before Stonewall, 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. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris' Left Bank and Tangier - where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gay - Field's intimate portraits of literary contemporaries such as Susan Sontag, Alfred Chester, May Swenson, and Frank O'Hara bring back the sadness, bawdiness, humor, and romanticism of the nigh-forgotten postwar bohemian subculture.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-01-30
Mått153 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt407 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiving Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
Antal sidor302
Upplaga7002
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299213244

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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 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.

The book is entertaining, offering gossipy anecdotes about a range of colorful gay writers, including Alfred Chester (who never really wanted to marry Susan Sontag), Robert Friend, May Swenson, and Arthur Gregor. These disparate recountings hang together because Field's sensibility - candid, perceptive, self-deprecatory - unifies them. This is a fun book that recalls an important era of American literary history. - G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice ""Of serious interest to anyone intrigued by New York literary life of the 1950s and '60s."" - Publishers Weekly