Author Description

A Great Collection Of Poetry From 6 Of His Previously Published Volumes And Selected New Works. Fields Never Has Forgotten The Relationship Between Laughter And Grief. Ganesh -- The Winners And The Losers -- The Dog Sitters -- Waiting For The Communists -- Minor Variations -- Whatever Became Of: Freud? -- The Romance Of Extinct Birds: The Carrier Pigeon -- Blinks -- Roach Invasion -- Berlin '87 -- Tijuana Blues -- Dietrich -- Hear, O Israel -- Song: Trop Tard Pour Paris -- The Hypochondriac -- New Yorkers -- After A Lifetime Insisting -- The Centaur -- A Doggerel Of Symptoms -- Up Shit Creek In A Heatwave -- Promises, Promises -- People Who Eat In Coffee Shops -- Aunt Edwina's Five-minute Blender Recipes -- I Have Always Said That If I Got It -- Some Say The Body Cures Itself -- Bomba The Jungle Boy In Fangs Of Death -- Physician, Heal Thyself -- The Last Bohemians -- Music Lessons -- The Kuntzes -- Basketball Legs -- Self Portrait In The Bathroom Mirror -- Memory Gap -- Tired -- The Nose, Or The Wit And Wisdom Of Junior Murphy -- From The Booke Of Shyting -- Enconado -- Night Song -- Role Models -- The Oh, Brother Cantata -- The Naked Fool, Or, The History Of A Moustache -- World Traveller -- Vocalise -- Bio -- Oh, The Gingkos -- England Again -- Rule Of The Desert -- Anthropologist -- Post Masturbatum -- Temptation -- Que C'est Drole, L'amour Qui Marche Dans Les Rues.... -- The Veteran -- To The Sun -- Shark Island -- Dirty Old Man: Two Variations -- Rockabilly -- The Roving Eye -- Natural Desire -- Space Opera (a Fragment) -- The Spoiled Coast -- The Reprieve -- Happy Landings Evening, With Leaves -- Holland -- The Shining -- Callas -- Nowhere -- The Time Bomb -- The Guide -- Garbo -- The Final Visit -- The Stumps -- Letter From A Friend -- The Scream -- One More For The Quilt -- Subsidence -- A New Stage, Sunday, March 22, 1992 -- After Cavafy -- Hydra -- Donkeys -- Unwanted -- Notes From A Slave Ship -- Poem For The Left Hand -- A Bill To My Father -- The Te