Cairo Traffic
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Phoenix Poets
ISBN-10
0226741923
ISBN-13
9780226741925
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2000
Print length
83 Pages
Weight
262 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 16.10 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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This book of poems asks the sphinx to solve a riddle. The search for answers takes the poet to some surprising, often phantasmagoric places, and back again to the self, to dreams, to home, and even to the nursing home where his mother becomes the person asking the dark questions.
In Cairo Traffic, his third book of poems, Lloyd Schwartz asks the Sphinx to explain the riddle "about, you know, / Time and Power and Families-the one you think you / have the answer to. Tell me your answer! / No . . . don't." The search for answers takes the poet to some surprising, often phantasmagoric places, and back again to the self, to dreams, to home, and even to the nursing home where his mother-sphinxlike herself-becomes the person asking the dark questions and providing some unexpected answers. These extraordinary narratives-funny and frightening, seductive and profoundly moving-explore the intersections of character and language, the places where common speech mysteriously transforms itself into poetry. This book, which includes several translations of contemporary Brazilian poems, confirms Schwartz's growing reputation as an intensely compelling and original poet.
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