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    Little Kisses
    Little Kisses
    Little Kisses
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    Little Kisses

    By Lloyd Schwartz

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    Called “the master of the poetic one-liner” by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignant and comic poems about personal loss—the mysterious disappearance of his oldest friend, his mother’s failing memory, a precious gold ring gone missing—along with uneasy love poems and poems about family, identity, travel, and art with all of its potentially recuperative power. Humane, deeply moving, and curiously hopeful, these poems are distinguished by their unsentimental but heartbreaking tenderness, pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, formal surprises, and exuberant sense of humor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateApr 3, 2017
    ISBN9780226458304
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      Little Kisses - Lloyd Schwartz

      Little Kisses

      Little Kisses

      Lloyd Schwartz

      The University of Chicago Press

      Chicago & London

      The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

      The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

      © 2017 by The University of Chicago

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.

      Published 2017

      Printed in the United States of America

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      ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45827-4 (paper)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45830-4 (e-book)

      DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226458304.001.0001

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Schwartz, Lloyd, 1941– author.

      Title: Little kisses / Lloyd Schwartz.

      Other titles: Phoenix poets.

      Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. | Series: Phoenix poets | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016035741| ISBN 9780226458274 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226458304 (e-book)

      Classification: LCC PS3569.C5667 L58 2017 | DDC 811/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035741

      This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

      For DAVID STANG

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Little Kisses

      My Other Grandmother

      Lost Causes

      The Conductor

      Goldring

      City of Dreams

      Dreams (Gatsby’s Beguine)

      Crossword

      Six Words

      Is Light Enough?

      New Name

      La Valse

      Howl

      Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna: Music for My Ashes

      Two Mineiro Poems on the Love of Death

      Music for My Ashes

      Getting Ready the House

      They Are Moving Along

      Viktor Neborak: Fish

      Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna: Tehran Spring

      On the Rooftops of Iran

      Zayande (The One Who Gives Life)

      Tehran Spring

      If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now

      Small Airport in Brazil

      In Flight

      Cut-Up

      To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death

      Two Plays

      Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot

      Notes

      Acknowledgments

      The author gratefully acknowledges the editors of the following publications, in print and online, in which these poems first appeared.

      The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day: "To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death"

      Agni: "Lost Causes, Two Mineiro Poems on the Love of Death, and Music for My Ashes"

      Bergstein, Arrowsmith Press: "If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now"

      The Atlantic: "Small Airport in Brazil"

      Boulevard: "Two Plays"

      The Cincinnati Review: "Cut-Up"

      Consequence: "City of Dreams"

      Court Green: "New Name"

      From Three Worlds: New Ukrainian Writing, Zephyr Press/Glas: New Russian Writing: "Fish"

      Liberation (Terezín Music Foundation Poetry and Music Project Anthology), Beacon Press: "La Valse"

      New Ohio Review: "In

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