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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