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Who's on first? : new and selected poems / Lloyd Schwartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Lloyd, 1941- author.
- Series:
- Phoenix poets.
- Phoenix Poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- New and selected poems by renowned poet Lloyd Schwartz. For more than four decades, readers and critics have found Lloyd Schwartz’s poems unlike anyone else’s—a rare combination of the heartbreaking and the hilarious. With his ear for the poetry of the vernacular, Schwartz offers us a memorable cast of characters—both real and imagined, foolish and oracular. Readers experience his mother’s piercing flashes of memory, the perverse comic wisdom of Gracie Allen, the uninhibited yet loving exhibitionists of antique pornography, and eager travelers crossing America in a club-car or waiting in a Brazilian airport. Schwartz listens to these people without judging—understanding that they are all trying to live their lives, whenever possible, with tenderness, humor, and grace. Who’s on First? brings together a selection of poems from all of Schwartz’s previous collections along with eagerly awaited new poems, highlighting his formal inventiveness in tangling and untangling the yarn of comedy and pathos. Underlying all of these poems is the question of what it takes and what it costs to make art.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- From These People (1981)
- Who's on First?
- Hannah
- Mug Shots
- A Philosophical Problem
- The Wanderer
- 78's
- The Recital
- Self-Portrait
- From Goodnight, Gracie (1992)
- Leaves
- Gisela Brüning
- In the Mist
- House Hunting
- At the Window (from "Crossing the Rockies")
- Fourteen People
- Goodnight, Gracie
- Love
- Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- Simple Questions
- From Cairo Traffic (2000)
- A True Poem
- Friendly Song (by Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
- She Forgets
- The Two Horses (A Memory)
- He Tells His Mother What He's Working On
- The Two Churches (A Dream)
- Pornography
- Proverbs from Purgatory
- The Dream During My Mother's Recuperation
- No Orpheus
- Her Waltz
- Nostalgia (The Lake at Night)
- Song
- Renato's Dream
- Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from "Cairo Traffic")
- From Little Kisses (2017)
- Little Kisses
- My Other Grandmother
- Lost Causes
- The Conductor
- Goldring
- Crossword
- Six Words
- Is Light Enough?
- New Name
- La Valse
- Tehran Spring (by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna)
- Small Airport in Brazil
- In Flight
- To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death
- Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot
- New Poems (2001-2021)
- Vermeer's Pearl
- Escher: Still Life with Mirror (1934)
- The World
- God Hour (Eric Lundquist: In Memoriam)
- Harvest
- In Emily Dickinson's Bedroom
- My Doctor's Death
- Lubitsch's Angel
- Ralph Hamilton's Faces
- Titian's Marsyas
- The Rehearsal
- Astronomer
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226795119
- 022679511X
- OCLC:
- 1259321756
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