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BUY FROM PUBLISHER Available as an ebook at: Amazon Kindle Apple iBooks Barnes & Noble Nook CNPeReading eBooks Corp. EBSCO eBooks Google Play Kobo OverDrive	Little Kisses by Lloyd Schwartz University of Chicago Press, 2017 eISBN: 978-0-226-45830-4 \| Paper: 978-0-226-45827-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3569.C5667L58 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| REVIEWS \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK 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. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Lloyd Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the commentator on classical music and the visual arts for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, and a noted Elizabeth Bishop scholar. In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His books of poetry include Cairo Traffic and Goodnight, Gracie, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. REVIEWS "There’s a dreaminess to the collection...the sense of conversations with people from prior parts of life in moments just before waking." — Boston Globe "In his poetry, Schwartz creates a warm and likable persona who uses verse as a means of dealing with a difficult world. Reading Little Kisses is reassuring – and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in." — The Arts Fuse “Despite the sometimes-grave themes, [the collection] is uplifting and joyous. All in all, it is a very lively mix of poems that move with subtlety, wisdom, good humor, and sly erudition. There is great musicality here and lots of rewarding lyrical surprises.” — Consequence Magazine “A major poet with a gentle, comic soul” — Roger Rosenblatt TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Little Kisses My Other Grandmother Lost Causes * The Conductor Goldring City of Dreams * Dreams 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 REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. Please have the disability coordinator at your school fill out this form. It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled. See other books on: American \| Poetry \| Schwartz, Lloyd See other titles from University of Chicago Press

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REVIEWS

"There’s a dreaminess to the collection...the sense of conversations with people from prior parts of life in moments just before waking."

— Boston Globe

"In his poetry, Schwartz creates a warm and likable persona who uses verse as a means of dealing with a difficult world. Reading Little Kisses is reassuring – and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in."

— The Arts Fuse

“Despite the sometimes-grave themes, [the collection] is uplifting and joyous. All in all, it is a very lively mix of poems that move with subtlety, wisdom, good humor, and sly erudition. There is great musicality here and lots of rewarding lyrical surprises.”

— Consequence Magazine

“A major poet with a gentle, comic soul”

— Roger Rosenblatt