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by Lloyd Schwartz (Author)
The latest poetry collection from Cambridge legend Lloyd Schwartz.
Praise for Lloyd Schwartz's Poetry
From the Citation for the 2025 David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Annual Poetry Prize
"A simultaneous delicacy and ferocity of introspection, interiority, and inhabiting of minds that
is intoxicating.... lyrics that spiral into haunting snapshots of fractured lives.... We were
furthermore impressed by your facility in translation, especially in your timely and haunting
version of the Ukrainian poet Viktor Neborak's 'Fish, ' and the exquisitely lyrical poem, 'The
Gardener, ' by the Hungarian poet Attila József."
On the title poem of this collection: "So many planes... It's a wonderful poem. I am so happy to
have seen it. It's one of the most dramatic lyrics I think that it's possible to write," Helen
Vendler, Write America, May 16, 2022
On Who's on First? New and Selected Poems:
"Full of linguistic play... and a philosophical and satirical urgency," Micah Zevin, Booklist
"Humane, artful, erudite complexity overlaid with a kind of humble simplicity-real feeling, real
pain and real darkness, held at bay with warmth and wisdom and wit," Sam Cha, Árrowsmith
Journal
"One of the best American poets... While Schwartz is a serious poet, a poet of love and death, a
poet unafraid of bleakness, he is also a joyous poet, and at times, a very funny one.," David
Blair, Revel
Nina MacLaughlin, "A triumph of a collection.... Schwartz is attuned to the beauty of
conversation, the gaps, the unsaids, and the shimmering moments of union." The Boston Globe
On Little Kisses:
"Some thirty poems that share a common vision of loss, resilience, joy, memory, and buoyant
wit," John Kendall Hawkins, Consequence
"A major poet with a gentle comic soul," Roger Rosenblatt, Kenyon Review Newsletter
On Cairo Traffic
"The master of the poetic one-liner," David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review
Nichlas Everett, "How powerfully verse can still deliver the idioms and nuances of American
speech," The Time Literary Supplement
