[cite web |title=Edward Field Papers: 1943 - 1994 |work=University of Delaware Special Collections Department |accessdate=2007-06-13 |url=http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/field/field01.htm] , long-time residents of Greenwich Village, have written a best-selling historical novel about the Village, "The Villagers". In 2005 the University of Wisconsin Press published his literary memoirs "The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era", the title of which refers to the writer Alfred Chester. [Citation]
first = Edward
last = Field
title = The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag
place = Madison
publisher = University of Wisconsin Press
year = 2005
isbn = 029921320-X ] His most recent book "" was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2007.Books
Poetry
* "Icarus" (1950)
* "Stand Up, Friend, With Me" (Grove Press, 1963)
* "Variety Photoplays" (Grove Press, 1967)
* "Eskimo Songs and Stories" (Delacorte, 1973)
* "A Full Heart" (Sheep Meadow Press, 1977)
* "Stars In My Eyes" (Sheep Meadow Press, 1978)
* "The Lost, Dancing" (Watershed Tapes, 1984)
* "New And Selected Poems" (Sheep Meadow Press, 1987)
* "Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963–1992" (Black Sparrow, 1992)
* "A Frieze for a Temple of Love" (Black Sparrow, 1998)
* "Magic Words" (Harcourt Brace, 1998)
* "After The Fall: Poems Old and New" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
Fiction (with Neil Derrick)
* "The Potency Clinic" (Bleecker Street Press, 1978)
* "Die PotenzKlinik" (Albino Verlag, Berlin, 1982)
* "Village" (Avon Books, 1982)
* "The Office" (Ballantine Books, 1987)
* "The Villagers" (Painted Leaf Press, 2000)
Non-fiction
* "The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era" (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2006, paperback edition, 2007)
Anthologies and editorial
* "A Geography of Poets" (Bantam Books, 1979)
* (with C. Stetler/G. Locklin) "A New Geography of Poets" (U. of Arkansas Press, 1992)
* Ed., "Head Of A Sad Angel, Stories by Alfred Chester" (Black Sparrow, 1990). Introduction by Gore Vidal.
* Ed., "Looking For Genet, Essays by Alfred Chester" (Black Sparrow Press, 1992)
* Ed., "Dancing With A Tiger, Selected Poems by Robert Friend" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2003)
Periodicals
Poetry and essays in "The New Yorker", "New York Review of Books", "Gay & Lesbian Review", "Partisan Review", "The Nation", "Evergreen Review", "New York Times Book Review", "Michigan Quarterly", "Raritan Quarterly Review", "Parnassus", and "Kenyon Review".
Miscellaneous
* Wrote narration for documentary film "To Be Alive", which won Academy Award, 1965
* Readings at the Library of Congress, Poetry Center, YMHA, and hundreds of colleges and universities
* Taught poetry workshops at the Poetry Center, YMHA, Sarah Lawrence, Hofstra U.
* Editor of The Alfred Chester Society Newsletter
Awards and honors
* Lamont Award (Academy of American Poets), 1962
* Guggenheim Fellowship, 1963
* Shelley Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America), 1974
* Prix de Rome (American Academy of Arts & Letters), 1981
* Lambda Literary Award, 1993
* Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award (Publishing Triangle), 2005
* W.H. Auden Award (Sheep Meadow Foundation), 2005
References
External links
* [http://www.edwardfield.com Field's website]
