After the Fall: Poems Old and New

✍ Scribed by Field, Edward

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: en-ca
• Weight: 94 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0822990717

✦ Synopsis

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 -- Journey -- View of Jersey: Notes from a slave ship -- Bill to my father -- Telephone -- Statue of liberty -- Sonny Hugg and the porcupine -- Graffiti -- Unwanted -- Sleeper -- At the Coney Island Aquarium -- Charmed pool -- Ode to Fidel Castro -- From Variety photoplays (1967): Curse of the cat woman -- Frankenstein -- Bride of Frankenstein -- Sweet Gwendolyn and the countess -- Whatever happened to May Caspar? -- Nancy -- Life of Joan Crawford -- World War II -- Giant Pacific octopus -- Tailspin -- From A full heart (1973): New York -- Being Jewish -- Lost, dancing -- David's dream -- Sharks -- From Stars in my eyes (1978): Mae West -- Comeback -- From New and selected poems, from the book of my life (1987): Triad -- Oh, brother! -- From Poland -- Narcissus -- Poems on a theme: In praise -- Shy guy -- 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 -- Last bohemians -- World traveler -- Rule of the desert -- Sex among the savages -- Callas -- 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 -- Bukowski option -- From "A man and his penis": Old acquaintance -- From "My life as a dog": Power source -- Sorry, I never slept with Allen Ginsberg -- Acknowledgements.;After the Fall 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. --Publisher's description.