The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag

And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era

By:

Edward Field

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

January 30th, 2007

Author

Edward Field

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited by David Bergman
Edited by Joan Larkin

Illustrations

12 b/w photos, 1 drawing

Pages

302

Series

Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780299213244

Product ID

6298143

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