James Laughlin Award
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (1962) Winner
Edward Field
エドワード・フィールド
Edward Field
Aliases:
Bruce Elliot（ニール・デリックとの共作時の筆名）
Pen Names:
Bruce Elliot（Pseudonym used when co-writing with Neil Derrick）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1924-06-07 （Brooklyn, New York, U.S.）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Lynbrook, New York (grew up) → Westbeth Artists Community, West Village, New York City (residence)
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Novelist, Memoirist, Anthologist, Author
- Active Years
- 1943-
- Influenced By
- William Carlos Williams, Mark Van Doren
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Lamont Poetry Prize | Stand Up, Friend, With Me | — | Academy of American Poets | 受賞 |
| 1963 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1974 | Shelley Memorial Award | — | — | Poetry Society of America | 受賞 |
| 1981 | Prix de Rome (American Academy of Arts & Letters) | — | — | American Academy of Arts & Letters | 受賞 |
| 1993 | Lambda Literary Award | Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963–1992 | — | Lambda Literary Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award | — | 生涯業績 | Publishing Triangle | 受賞 |
| 2005 | W. H. Auden Award | — | — | Sheep Meadow Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1966 | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) (narration contributor) | To Be Alive! | 映画（ナレーション） | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | 受賞（作品が受賞） |
Lamont Poetry Prize
1962
Work:
Stand Up, Friend, With Me
Organization:
Academy of American Poets
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1963
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Shelley Memorial Award
1974
Organization:
Poetry Society of America
Result:
受賞
Prix de Rome (American Academy of Arts & Letters)
1981
Organization:
American Academy of Arts & Letters
Result:
受賞
Lambda Literary Award
1993
Work:
Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963–1992
Organization:
Lambda Literary Foundation
Result:
受賞
Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award
2005
Category:
生涯業績
Organization:
Publishing Triangle
Result:
受賞
W. H. Auden Award
2005
Organization:
Sheep Meadow Foundation
Result:
受賞
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) (narration contributor)
1966
Work:
To Be Alive!
Category:
映画（ナレーション）
Organization:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Result:
受賞（作品が受賞）
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Stand Up, Friend, With Me
1963 PoetryField's debut collection, noted for its direct, conversational style and poems drawing on wartime and personal memory.
WarMemorySelf
Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963–1992
1992 Poetry (Selected Poems)A selection of poems from 1963 to 1992; winner of the Lambda Literary Award in 1993.
Urban lifeGay identityMemory
After The Fall: Poems Old and New
2007 PoetryA collection of old and new poems, including pieces written after 9/11; praised as direct and accessible.
Urban lossHistoryPersonal recollection
Village (revised as The Villagers)
1982 Historical novel (co-written)A historical novel co-written with Neil Derrick under the pseudonym Bruce Elliot, set in 1845 Greenwich Village with cameo appearances by real literary figures.
HistoryLiterary cameosNew York
The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
2006 Memoir / EssaysA memoir and series of literary portraits about New York's bohemian literary scene of the 1950s–60s; published by University of Wisconsin Press.
New York literary historyPortraitsReminiscence
Bibliography
- Stand Up, Friend, With Me (1963)
- Variety Photoplays (1967)
- A Full Heart (1977)
- Stars in My Eyes (1978)
- New and Selected Poems: From the Book of My Life (1987)
- Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963–1992 (1992)
- A Frieze for a Temple of Love (1998)
- After The Fall: Poems Old and New (2007)
- Icarus (chapbook, 1963)
- The Potency Clinic (as Bruce Elliot, 1978)
- Village (as Bruce Elliot, 1982)
- The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag (2006)
- Kabuli Days: Travels in Old Afghanistan (2008)
Adaptations
- To Be Alive! (1966, narration contributor)
- Minor Accident of War (2019, animated short; features Field narrating his poem "World War II")
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Direct, clear dictionNarrative poetryAccessible and conversational
- Recurring Motifs
- Wartime experienceNew York / urban lifeGay identityMemory and reminiscence
Legacy
Edward Field is regarded as a significant figure in American poetry from the late 20th century into the 21st; Publishers Weekly called him "irreplaceable in the history of gay American writing." His papers are archived and he has influenced later writers through readings and teaching.
Academic Societies
- American Academy of Arts & Letters (associated)
Archives
- Special Collections, University of Delaware (Edward Field papers)
- University of Delaware (Alfred Chester archives edited by Field)
In Popular Culture
- 2019 animated short 'Minor Accident of War' features Field narrating his wartime poem
Quotes
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I was working in the typing pool of an advertising agency, and the supervisor assigned the typewriter next to me to a new temp, a terrific-looking young man from California named Neil Derrick. It was a case of immediate attraction between WASP and Jew.
Source: Memoir / interview (see Lambda Literary Review and related sources) (2018)
Trivia
- Born in 1924; turned 100 on June 7, 2024.
- Served as a navigator with the Eighth Air Force in WWII; his B-17 was crippled and crash-landed in the North Sea, and he survived.
- His partner Neil Derrick died in 2018.
- Used the pseudonym Bruce Elliot when co-writing with Neil Derrick.