Foreword / Gore Vidal. Paris: 1953-1959. Cradle Song -- As I Was Going Up The Stair -- Here Be Dragons -- The Head Of A Sad Angel -- A War On Salamis -- Behold Goliath -- New York: 1959-1963. From The Phoenix To The Unnameable, Impossibly Beautiful Wild Bird -- In Praise Of Vespasian -- Beds And Boards -- Ismael -- Morocco: 1963-1965. Glory Hole -- Safari -- Exile: 1966. The Foot -- Alfred Chester Remembered. A Biographical Sketch / Edward Field -- Letter / Jean-claude Van Itallie -- The Sodden, Stoned, Cold-water, Fantasticks Blues / Dennis Selby -- Flung Out: The Macdowell Coloney Letters / Alfred Chester -- The Decline And Fall Of Alfred Chester / Norman Glass -- Our Ancestor Alfred Chester / Ira Cohen -- The Last Days Of Alfred Chester / Robert Friend. Alfred Chester ; Edited By Edward Field ; Foreword By Gore Vidal.