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Field Edward <1924-> |
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After the fall : poems old and new / / Edward Field |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] |
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©2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""New Poems ""; ""What Poetry Is For""; ""Credo""; ""Homeland Security""; ""Letter on the Brink of War""; ""Good-bye to Berlin""; ""My Favorite President""; ""In Memory of My Foreskin""; ""Holding Up the Universe""; ""Oedipus Schmoedipus""; ""If This Be Jews""; ""Too Late""; ""Mission Accomplished""; ""What Poetry Is For""; ""Judgment at Nuremberg""; ""Dead Man Walking""; ""Dead Man Walking""; ""In Praise of My Prostate""; ""When It Struck Him""; ""Taking My Breath Away""; ""Mrs. Wallace Stevens""; ""Prospero, in Retirement""; ""After the Fall""; ""After the Fall"" |
""Selected Poems """"from Stand Up, Friend, With Me (1963)""; ""Hydra""; ""Donkeys""; ""Prologue""; ""A Journey""; ""A View of Jersey""; ""Notes from a Slave Ship""; ""A Bill to My Father""; ""The Telephone""; ""The Statue of Liberty""; ""Sonny Hugg and the Porcupine""; ""Graffiti""; ""Unwanted""; ""The Sleeper""; ""At the Coney Island Aquarium: An Ode for Ookie, the Older Walrus Child or The Sibling Rival""; ""The Charmed Pool""; ""Ode to Fidel Castro""; ""from Variety Photoplays (1967)""; ""Curse of the Cat Woman""; ""Frankenstein""; ""The Bride of Frankenstein"" |
""Sweet Gwendolyn and the Countess""""Whatever Happened to May Caspar? A Narration for an Animated Cartoon""; ""Nancy""; ""The Life of Joan Crawford""; ""World War II""; ""Giant Pacific Octopus""; ""Tailspin""; ""from A Full Heart (1973)""; ""New York""; ""Being Jewish""; ""The Lost, Dancing""; ""David's Dream""; ""Sharks""; ""from Stars in My Eyes (1978)""; ""Mae West""; ""Comeback""; ""from New and Selected Poems, |
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from the Book of My Life (1987)""; ""Triad""; ""Oh, Brother!""; ""From Poland""; ""Narcissus""; ""Poems on a Theme""; ""Afghanistan""; ""To Love"" |
""from Counting Myself Lucky, Poems 1963-1992 (1992)""""The Winners and the Losers""; ""Waiting for the Communists""; ""Blinks""; ""Dietrich""; ""Hear, O Israel""; ""Trop Tard Pour Paris""; ""The Last Bohemians""; ""World Traveler""; ""Rule of the Desert""; ""Sex Among the Savages""; ""Callas""; ""The Guide""; ""Garbo""; ""from A Frieze for a Temple of Love, Poems 1993-1997 (1998)""; ""Colombian Gold""; ""My Sister, the Queen""; ""Magic Words""; ""Colossus""; ""St. Petersburg, 1918""; ""The Bukowski Option""; ""A Man and His Penis""; ""from my Life as a Dog"" |
""Sorry, I Never Slept with Allen Ginsberg""""Acknowledgments"" |
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<div><i>After the Fall</i> refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter--the war in Iraq and the attack on civil rights in America--as well as his own personal struggles over the indignities of aging.</div> |
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