The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag

And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-299-21324-4
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Field, Edward

Über Autor(innen)

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.