ARTUR SCHNABEL AND JOSEPH SZIGETI PLAY MOZART AT THE FRICK COLLECTION (APRIL 4, 1948) and other poems

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