Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963-1992 [Hardcover]

Edward Field (Author)

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Afghanistan
After A Lifetime Insisting
After Cavafy
After The Moonwalk
Anthropologist
At The Coney Island Aquarium: And Ode For Ookie, The Older Walrus
Aunt Edwina's Five-minute Blender Recipes
Basketball Legs
Beauty Cure
Berlin '87
A Bill To My Father
Bio
Blinks
Bomba The Jungle Boy In 'fangs Of Death'
Book Of The Dead
Both My Grandmothers 1. My Polish Grandma
Both My Grandmothers 2. My Russian Grandma
The Bride Of Frankenstein
Brief Bio
Callas
Categories: 1. Nurses And Patients
Categories: 2. Cows And Bulls
The Centaur
The Charmed Pool
Chopin
The Crier
Curse Of The Cat Woman
David's Dream
Dietrich
Dirty Old Man: Two Variations
The Dog Sitters
A Doggerel Of Symptoms
Donkeys
Enconado
England Again
Evening, With Leaves
The Final Visit
Frankenstein
From The Booke Of Shyting
A Full Heart
Ganesh
Garbo
The Garden
The Giant Bear
Giant Pacific Octopus
Graffiti
Grandma Takes A Foster Child
The Guide
Happy Landings
Hear, O Israel
Holland
Hydra
The Hypochondriac
I Have Always Said That If I Got It
A Journey
The Kuntzes
The Last Bohemians
Lazy Eskimo
Letter From A Friend
The Life Of Joan Crawford
The Lost, Dancing
Mae West
Male Manifesto
Memory Gap
Minor Variations
Mirror Song
Music Lessons
The Naked Fool,or, The History Of A Moustache
Nancy
Natural Desire
A New Cycle
A New Stage, Sunday, March 22, 1992
New York
New Yorkers
Night Song
The Nose, Or The Wit And Wisdom Of Junior Murphy
Notes From A Slave Ship
Nowhere
Ode To Fidel Castro
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 1. Missing The Boat
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 10. The Fall Of Communism
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 11. The Psychology Of Couples (4)
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 12
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 13. 'what'll It Be, Pops?'
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 14
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 2. New York Rats
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 3. On First Looking Into The Mirror In The
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 4. The Psychology Of Couples (1)
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 5
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 6. The Fault Of The Jews
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 7. The Psychology Of Couples (2)
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 8
The 'oh, Brother' Cantata: 9. The Psychology Of Couples (3)
Oh, The Gingkos
One More For The Quilt
People Who Eat In Coffee Shops
Physcian, Heal Thyself
Poem For The Left Hand
Post Masturbatio
Prologue
Promises, Promises
'que C'est Drole, L'amour Qui Marche Dans Les Rues...'
The Reprieve
The Reservoir
Roach Invasion
Roaches
Rockabilly
Role Models
The Romance Of Extinct Birds: The Carier Pigeon
The Roving Eye
Rule Of The Desert
The Sand Map
The Scream
Self Portrait In The Bathroom Mirror
Shark Island
Sharks
The Shining
Shy Guy
The Sleeper
Some Say The Body Cures Itself
Song: Trop Tard Pour Paris
Sonny Hugg And The Porcupine
Space Opera (a Fragment)
The Spoiled Coast
Stroker
The Stumps
Subsidence
Sweet Gwendolyn And The Countess
The Tailspin
The Telephone
Tell It To The Marines
Temptation
Tijuana Blues
The Time Bomb
Tired
To Love
To The Sun
Toothy Lurkers
Triad
Tulips And Addresses
Two Songs
Unwanted
Up Shit Creek In A Heatwave
The Veteran
Visiting Home
Vocalise
Waiting For The Communists
Wet Dream
Whatever Became Of Freud?
Whatever Happened To May Caspar?
The Winners And The Losers
The Woman Who Turned To Stone
World Traveller
World War Ii
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 307 pages
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876858914
• ISBN-13: 978-0876858912
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,720,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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EDWARD FIELD was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, and attended New York University before enlisting in the US Air Force in 1943. During the war, as a navigator in heavy bombers, he flew 25 missions over Germany. It was in the army that he began writing poetry, but his first book of poems, Stand Up, Friend, With Me, was not published until 1963 after he won the Lamont Award.

Among his many publications since then are Variety Photoplays, which developed the genre of movie poems; the novel Village (later revised as The Villagers) -- a four-generation historical novel about Greenwich Village, written with his partner Neil Derrick; and a memoir, The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits from the Bohemian Era. His latest book of poems, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, is After the Fall, Poems Old and New, which focuses on the current military, political, and economic situation of the country since the 9/11 tragedy. A travel diary of Afghanistan Kabuli Days, Travels in Old Afghanistan, has just come out from World Parade Books. A CD of him reading his poems with music by Ack Van Rooyen and Peter Tiehuis is also available from World Parade Books.

His honors include the Shelley Award, a Lambda Award, an Academy Award in 1965 for the documentary film "To Be Alive" for which he wrote the voice-over narration, and the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award.

He has given readings at hundreds of colleges and other institutions around the United States, including the Library of Congress. He can be seen reading poems on www.YouTube.com/fieldinski. He lives in New York.

More information on his website www.edwardfield.com.

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This review is from: Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems, 1963-1992 (Paperback)

For a good survey of this remarkably UNDER-READ poet, pick up this volume. Field displays a girth of literary talent in these 250 some pages.