Who's on First?

New and Selected Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-27
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt330 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhoenix Poets
Antal sidor160
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226795089

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Lloyd Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a longtime commentator on classical music and the arts for National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and a noted editor of Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and prose. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry, and the Poet Laureateship of the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, and Atlantic. Among his poetry books are Little Kisses, Cairo Traffic, and Goodnight, Gracie, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Acknowledgments*from These People (1981)Who’s on First?HannahMug ShotsA Philosophical ProblemThe Wanderer78’sThe RecitalSelf-Portrait*from Goodnight, Gracie (1992)LeavesGisela BrüningIn the Mist House Huntingfrom “Crossing the Rockies”: At the WindowFourteen PeopleGoodnight, GracieLovePseudodoxia EpidemicaSimple Questions*from Cairo Traffic (2000)A True PoemFriendly Song (by Carlos Drummond de Andrade)She ForgetsThe Two Horses (A Memory)He Tells His Mother What He’s Working OnThe Two Churches (A Dream)PornographyProverbs from PurgatoryThe Dream During My Mother’s RecuperationNo OrpheusHer WaltzNostalgia (The Lake at Night)SongRenato’s Dreamfrom “Cairo Traffic”: 9. Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art*from Little Kisses (2017)Little KissesMy Other GrandmotherLost CausesThe ConductorGoldringCrosswordSix WordsIs Light Enough? 00New NameLa ValseTehran Spring (by Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna)Small Airport in BrazilIn FlightTo My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a DeathJerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot*New Poems (2001–2021)Vermeer’s PearlEscher: Still Life with Mirror (1934)The WorldGod Hour (Eric Lundquist: In Memoriam)HarvestIn Emily Dickinson’s BedroomMy Doctor’s DeathLubitsch’s AngelRalph Hamilton’s FacesTitian’s MarsyasThe RehearsalAstronomerNotes

"As in all his collections, the poems in Schwartz's Who's on First? are distinguished by their unsentimental but heartbreaking tenderness, Schwartz's pitch perfect ear for dialogue, his great sense of humor, and a kind of prose like expansiveness that is never slack or merely prose. His long lines, often coinciding with the sentence generate a sly rhythm that depends on an underlying meter that the rhythm disguises even while soliciting. These poems are funny and deeply disquieting, intimate yet decorous, and by that I mean they strike an ever-changing just right unanticipated balance between disclosure and withholding, statement and image, descriptive detail and discursiveness. Schwartz is great company, humane, considerate, and incredibly moving."--Alan Shapiro, author of Against Translation