Pieces published for the first time are listed in boldface.
Pieces published for a second time (or more) are designated as [reprint].
Pieces that were NOT collected in Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone are indicated by a blue asterisk: *
"Dick's Dilemmas" (editorials) *
"With A Copy of Dylan Under my Arm" (story)
"Away Where the Highlands" (poem) *
"Student Action and Apartment Rules" (editorial) *
"A Lepidopterist and his Nymphet" (review) *
"Graham Greene's New 'Entertainment'" (review) *
"The Very Last Thoughts of One Now Dead" (prose poem) *
"The Flax Long Ripe" (poem)
"A Portion of Ourselves" (review) *
"Snodgrass Publishes First Verse Volume" (review) *
"A Sentimental Poem" (poem) *
"With a Copy of Dylan Under My Arm" (story) [reprint]
"God Bless America and All the Ships at Sea" (story) *
"Out by McGuckins" (poem) [reprint]
"The Dream Song of J. Alfred Kerowack" (poem) *
"Celebration for a Gray Day" (poem)
"Poem For Someone Else" (poem)
"Into the Spanish Streets with the Bulls of Pamplona" (article) *
"The Vision of Brother Francis" (story)
"The Field Near the Cathedral at Chartres" (poem)
"The Monterey Fair" (essay)
"An American in Britain" (essay) *
"Baez & Dylan: A Generation Singing Out" (essay)
"The Ballad of Joan Baez" (essay) *
"It Takes a While to Get Across Nebraska" (poem) *
SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS: 1953-1960
The Survey
This was a regular column Fariņa wrote for Brooklyn Technical High School's
newspaper, usually with a satiric bent. See the Brooklyn Tech
page for more info.
"Out by McGuckins" (poem) *
Reprinted Here
"The Priest that from the Altar Burst" (poem)
Cornell Writer, vol. 5, no. 2. March 1958.
(This issue also announces that Richard Fariņa is the winner of
the upperclassmen division of the short story competition, for
"With a Copy of Dylan Under My Arm".)
Cornell Writer, May, 1958.
Cornell Daily Sun, May 13, 1958.
A letter by Fariņa and Sale criticising the University administration's
puritanical regulation of co-ed activity. This letter was reprinted in
A Century at Cornell (Daniel Margulis, ed.), Cornell Daily Sun,
Ithaca: New York, 1980.
Cornell Daily Sun, September 25, 1958.
A review of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
Cornell Daily Sun, November 25, 1958.
A review of Our Man Havana.
"Poem for a Woman Who Loved" (poem)
Cornell Writer, December, 1958.
"A Winter Thought" (poem) *
"No Wind Had Been" (poem) *
"Away Where the Highlands" (poem) [reprint]
"Out By McGuckins" (poem) [reprint]
Festival of Contemporary Arts, no. 13.
This was a program booklet for a student poetry reading held on April 15, 1959.
Cornell Daily Sun, April 23, 1959.
A review of Herbert Gold's novel, The Optimist.
Cornell Daily Sun, May 28, 1959.
A review of Heart's Needle.
"Mary Anne and Me" (story) *
"Sestina for a Love Gone By" (poem) *
Reprinted Here
Cornell Writer, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1959.
New Campus Writing. No. 3, 1959.
Epoch, vol. X, no. 3; Spring 1960. pp. 161-170.
More Info
AFTER CORNELL: 1960-1966
"The Priest that from the Altar Burst" (poem) [reprint]
Poetry London-New York, no. 4, Summer 1960.
Reprinted Here
Trojan Horse, vol. 1, no. 1. December, 1960. p. 50-51.
More Info
Atlantic Monthly, vol. 207, March 1961, p. 66.
This magazine published a "Young Poets" section twice a year. This issue
included poems by John R. Nash, Cleveland Moffett, and Donald W. Baker, with
Fariņa featured first. According to Hajdu (p. 79), Fariņa was paid fifty dollars
for the poem, which he used to buy a car. Aside from being reprinted in
Long Time Coming, this poem was also included in Lyric voices: Approaches
to the Poetry of Contemporary Song, edited by Barbara Farris Graves and
Donald J. McBain, published by Wiley & Sons, 1972.
"No Wind Had Been" (poem) [reprint]
"The Flax Long Ripe" (poem) [reprint]
"A Sentimental Poem" (poem) [reprint]
Transatlantic Review, Fall, 1961. p. 111-114.
Village Voice, September 13, 1962.
Richard reports on his trip to Pamplona, where he celebrated the Fiesta de San
Fermin (July 5-12), watched bullfights, drank wine, and mingled with shopkeepers
and garlic vendors. Not surprisingly, this article is
written in the knowing, seasoned-traveller style of Hemingway. Carolyn Hester is
not mentioned in the article, but we know that she was travelling with him from
two pictures on John Byrne Cooke's website:
www.cookephoto.com/pamplona.html and
www.cookephoto.com/bullring.html. According to John Cooke's annotations to the photos,
Richard was "on a writer's pilgrimage, following in Hemingway's footsteps." Hemingway
had died a year earlier, on July 2. Ironically, Faulkner died while Fariņa was
in Pamplona. If Fariņa had just been following Faulkner's horse instead of Hemingway's
footsteps, he coulda caught the poor guy...
Prairie Schooner, vol. 36, no. 4; Winter 1962/63. p. 339-363.
Mademoiselle, vol. 57, May 1963, p. 78.
Mademoiselle, vol. 58, March 1964, p. 188ff.
Hootenanny, vol. 1, no. 2; March 1964, p. 56, 68.
Richard reports on the British folk scene. He spends most of the essay criticising
Ewan MacColl's purist approach to folk music, as seen at the Singer's Club above
London's Pindar of Wakefield and other places. He reports that the British Isles
do not yet have a thriving folk scene, and implies that in order to have one, they
must take a cue from the American scene and open themselves up to innovation.
Fariņa praises recent efforts by Rory and Alex McEwen (with whom he and Carolyn had
performed and recorded, though he doesn't mention this), specifically their
Edinburg festivals and TV appearances. Fariņa also praises the Liverpool Spinners,
Alex Campbell, Martin Carthy (whom he calls "perhaps the best folk instrumentalist
in the country if someone would buy him a playable instrument"), and many others.
Mademoiselle, vol. 59, August 1964, p. 242ff.
Fariņa's most-anthologized work. (See the Anthologies section below)
Hootenany, November, 1964.p. 14, 15, 67.
More info
Prairie Schooner, vol.39, no.1, Spring 1965, p.53.
The contributor's note for this poem:
RICHARD FARINA has traveled (slowly) between the East and Carmel and Big Sur
(see his piece on the local Birch Society in
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"For the Crashing and Burning of a Lockheed Electra whose Engines Had Been
Clogged by Passing Birds" (poem) *
Mademoiselle, vol. 61, October 1965, p. 110.
"Your Own True Name" (essay) [reprint]
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"Nobody Would Say Where the Camera Was" (article)
"American Afternoon" (story)
"Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone" (story)
"Ringing Out the Old in Happy Havana" (story) *
"The Dream Song of J. Alfred Kerowack" (poem) [reprint]
"God Bless America and All the Ships at Sea" (story) [reprint]
POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS:
San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, May 1, 1966.
This article, serving both as a key to the novel and an invitation to the
book party, was retitled "The Writer and the Cameraman" when it was included
in Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone.
Mademoiselle, vol. 63, September 1966, p. 166-7, 216-218.
Playboy, vol. 14, no. 2, February, 1967, p. 123, 174-176.
More info
Esquire. September, 1969, p. 131, 156, 158, 160, 164, 166.
More Info
"Sestina for a Love Gone By" (poem) [reprint]
"Out by McGuckins" (poem) [reprint]
"God Bless America and All the Ships at Sea" (story) [reprint]
Praxis: A Cornell Journal of Literature & Review.
vol. 8, no. 2. Winter 1983.
This was a special feature on Fariņa called, "Selections from the Cornell
Archives," with an introduction by W.M. Flanagan. (Mr. Flanagan also wrote a
his senior thesis on Fariņa.)
Cornell Alumni News. vol. 104, no. 3. November/December 2001.
This issue also featured an excerpt of Hajdu's Positively 4th Street.
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The American Folk Scene: Dimensions of the Folksong Revival. Edited by David A. Turk and A. Poulin, Jr. Dell, 1968. An anthology of articles on folk music that included Fariņa's most famous essay, "Baez and Dylan: A Generation Singing Out." The book itself was dedicated to Fariņa and Peter LaFarge and Guthrie and Seeger.
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The Age of Rock: Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution. Edited by Jonathan Eisen. Vintage, 1969. Another reprinting of "Baez and Dylan: A Generation Singing Out."
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Bob Dylan: A Retrospective. Edited by Craig McGregor. Morrow, 1972. Yet another reprinting of "Baez and Dylan." Many subsequent anthologies of essays on Dylan would also reprint this article, too many to list here.
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Ethnic American Short Stories: Stories that explore the diverse ethic
heritages alive in America today. Edited by Katharine D. Newman. Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1975. Includes Fariņa's short story, "Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone." You would have thought they'd include one of his stories with Cuban or Irish themes. The introduction to the story is as follows: "This story is included here because it is an imaginative young person's attempt to figure out the motivations of prejudice and genocide. It is not historically accurate, but it has a prophetic tone: Fariņa wrote this in 1964-65; he died in 1966; Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. The story has psychological validity; a frustrated egocentric person will look for a scapegoat and a chance to appear as a superman, even if it means murder."
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If you know of any publications I've missed, write to me, Douglas Cooke, at doug@richardandmimi.com