<p>New and selected poems by renowned poet Lloyd Schwartz.\nFor 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.\nWho’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.</p>

Who's on First?: New and Selected Poems (Phoenix Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Schwartz, Lloyd

Poetry

University of Chicago Press

<p>Poems impressively portray a variety of characters and their lives in their own words</p>

These People (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

Wesleyan University Press

Music In and On the Air is a wonderful collection of radio pieces from Pulitzer Prize winning critic Lloyd Schwartz. The book explores contemporary classics, musical theatre and film, and includes almost all the reviews Schwartz has presented since becoming  the classical music critic for NPR's Fresh Air. Offering  up reflections on performers and composers, from Bolet to Horowitz, Cole Porter to Elvis Costello, Casals to Toscanini—Schwartz brings us closer to music in the air. Host Terry Gross said it best: “Lloyd is my favorite classical music critic and I’ve been privileged to present him on Fresh Air. That he writes so knowledgeably about movie musicals makes me love him even more. He’s a poet, of course, and his gift for language makes him a pleasure to listen to as well as to read.”

Music In and On the Air

Arts & Photography

Music

Today established as one of the twentieth century’s most important poets, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was also a gifted artist and collector of art and artifacts, many of which were collected from her years in Brazil. Objects and Apparitions explores for the first time Bishop’s art: her delicate, miniaturist watercolors and gouaches of domestic vignettes; her tenderly fabricated, Cornell-esque constructions; and several works of art from her own collection, including family portraits and a bird cage modeled on a medieval cathedral. Many of these are reproduced here for the first time in full color, alongside poems, archival photographs and essays by Bishop scholars Joelle Biele, Dan Chiasson and Lloyd Schwartz that discuss Bishop’s art and its relationship to her poetry. Published for a critically acclaimed show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, this handsomely produced volume shows Bishop’s visual instincts to be as flawlessly poised and exquisite as her poetical sensibility.

Elizabeth Bishop: Objects & Apparitions

Chiasson, Dan

Biele, Joelle

Tibor De Nagy Gallery

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