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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Cairo Traffic
• Author: Lloyd Schwartz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780226741925
• ID: 04549169
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 278 × 154 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. September 2000

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