Frieze for a Temple of Love - Field, Edward
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This new book follows Edward Field's well-received Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963-1992. Field, a native New Yorker and longtime gay activist, writes poetry that is literate, immediate, funny and completely personal -- like small essays on the human condition, spoken by a friend we trust. "When I started writing, I wanted my poetry to save the world. I saw myself standing up in the marketplace and speaking to the people. Later, I desperately believed, against the world, that poetry could save me. In spite of the evident truth that poetry can change nothing, I trust the instincts of the young".…mehr

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This new book follows Edward Field's well-received Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963-1992. Field, a native New Yorker and longtime gay activist, writes poetry that is literate, immediate, funny and completely personal -- like small essays on the human condition, spoken by a friend we trust. "When I started writing, I wanted my poetry to save the world. I saw myself standing up in the marketplace and speaking to the people. Later, I desperately believed, against the world, that poetry could save me. In spite of the evident truth that poetry can change nothing, I trust the instincts of the young".
Autorenporträt
Edward Field won an Academy Award for writing narration for the documentary film To Be Alive. His other awards include the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and the Lambda Literary Award. Field has lived in New York City and has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Hofstra University.