Research Catalog

Title

Counting myself lucky : selected poems, 1963-1992 / Edward Field.

Author

Field, Edward, 1924-

Publication

Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Martin, Barbara (Book designer)
• Edwards Brothers, Inc., printer.

Description

307 pages : portrait; 24 cm

Summary

A great collection of poetry from 6 of his previously published volumes and selected new works. Fields never has forgotten the relationship between laughter and grief.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Gay men > Poetry
• 18.06 Anglo-American literature
• Gay men

Genre/Form

• Gay poetry
• Poetry
• Poems (texts)
• Gay poetry.
• Poésie homosexuelle.

Note

• "Printed October 1992 in Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press by Mackintosh Typography & Edwards Brothers Inc. [...] Design by Barbara Martin. This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 125 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 26 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray are lettered & signed by the author"--colophon.

Contents

• Ganesh -- The Winners and the Losers -- The Dog Sitters -- Waiting for the Communists -- Minor Variations -- Whatever Became of: Freud? -- The Romance of Extinct Birds: The Carrier Pigeon -- Blinks -- Roach Invasion -- Berlin '87 -- Tijuana Blues -- Dietrich -- Hear, O Israel -- Song: Trop Tard Pour Paris -- The Hypochondriac -- New Yorkers -- "After a lifetime insisting" -- The Centaur -- A Doggerel of Symptoms -- Up Shit Creek in a Heatwave -- Promises, Promises -- "People who eat in coffee shops" -- Aunt Edwina's Five-Minute Blender Recipes -- "I have always said that if I got it" -- "Some say the body cures itself" -- Bomba the Jungle Boy in "Fangs of Death" -- Physician, Heal Thyself -- The Last Bohemians -- Music Lessons -- The Kuntzes -- Basketball Legs -- Self Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror -- Memory Gap -- Tired -- The Nose, or The Wit and Wisdom of Junior Murphy -- from The Booke of Shyting -- Enconado -- Night Song -- Role Models -- The "Oh, Brother" Cantata -- The Naked Fool, or, The History of a Moustache -- World Traveller -- Vocalise -- Bio -- Oh, the Gingkos -- England Again -- Rule of the Desert -- Anthropologist -- Post Masturbatum -- Temptation -- "Que c'est drole, l'amour qui marche dans les rues. . . ." -- The Veteran -- To the Sun -- Shark Island -- Dirty Old Man: Two Variations -- Rockabilly -- The Roving Eye -- Natural Desire -- Space Opera (a fragment) -- The Spoiled Coast -- The Reprieve -- Happy Landings.
• Evening, with Leaves -- Holland -- The Shining -- Callas -- Nowhere -- The Time Bomb -- The Guide -- Garbo -- The Final Visit -- The Stumps -- Letter from a Friend -- The Scream -- One More for the Quilt -- Subsidence -- A New Stage, Sunday, March 22, 1992 -- After Cavafy -- Hydra -- Donkeys -- Unwanted -- Notes from a Slave Ship -- Poem for the Left Hand -- A Bill to My Father -- The Telephone -- A Journey -- Prologue -- Chopin -- Sonny Hugg and the Porcupine -- Graffiti -- A New Cycle -- The Charmed Pool -- Ode to Fidel Castro -- Tulips and Addresses -- The Sleeper -- At the Coney Island Aquarium: An Ode for Ookie ... -- The Garden -- Frankenstein -- Curse of the Cat Woman -- Whatever Happened to May Caspar? -- The Bride of Frankenstein -- The Life of Joan Crawford -- Nancy -- The Tailspin -- Beauty Cure -- World War II -- Sweet Gwendolyn and the Countess -- Toothy Lurkers -- 1. My Polish Grandma -- 2. My Russian Grandma -- Giant Pacific Octopus -- The Giant Bear -- Grandma Takes a Foster Child -- The Woman Who Turned to Stone -- Lazy Eskimo -- Mae West -- Book of the Dead -- New York -- Roaches -- After the Moonwalk -- The Reservoir -- A Full Heart -- The Farewell -- The Lost, Dancing -- The Sand Map -- David's Dream -- Visiting Home -- Sharks -- Triad -- "How hard I tried to be hard" -- "If today I am haggard and old" -- Shy Guy -- Categories I: Nurses and Patients -- Mirror Song -- Categories II: Cows and Bulls.
• Afghanistan -- To Love -- The Crier.

ISBN

• 0876858906
• 9780876858905
• 0876858914
• 9780876858912
• 0876858922
• 9780876858929

LCCN

92032538

OCLC

• ocm26586623
• 26586623
• SCSB-1973013

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library