Who's on First?

Lloyd Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a longtime commentator on classical music and the arts for National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and a noted editor of Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and prose. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry, and the Poet Laureateship of the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, and Atlantic. Among his poetry books are Little Kisses, Cairo Traffic, and Goodnight, Gracie, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Acknowledgments
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from These People (1981)
Who’s on First?
Hannah
Mug Shots
A Philosophical Problem
The Wanderer
78’s
The Recital
Self-Portrait
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from Goodnight, Gracie (1992)
Leaves
Gisela Brüning
In the Mist 
House Hunting
from “Crossing the Rockies”: At the Window
Fourteen People
Goodnight, Gracie
Love
Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Simple Questions
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from Cairo Traffic (2000)
A True Poem
Friendly Song (by Carlos Drummond de Andrade)
She Forgets
The Two Horses (A Memory)
He Tells His Mother What He’s Working On
The Two Churches (A Dream)
Pornography
Proverbs from Purgatory
The Dream During My Mother’s Recuperation
No Orpheus
Her Waltz
Nostalgia (The Lake at Night)
Song
Renato’s Dream
from “Cairo Traffic”: 9. Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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from Little Kisses (2017)
Little Kisses
My Other Grandmother
Lost Causes
The Conductor
Goldring
Crossword
Six Words
Is Light Enough? 00
New Name
La Valse
Tehran Spring (by Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna)
Small Airport in Brazil
In Flight
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death
Jerry Garcia in a Somerville Parking Lot
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New Poems (2001–2021)
Vermeer’s Pearl
Escher: Still Life with Mirror (1934)
The World
God Hour (Eric Lundquist: In Memoriam)
Harvest
In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom
My Doctor’s Death
Lubitsch’s Angel
Ralph Hamilton’s Faces
Titian’s Marsyas
The Rehearsal
Astronomer
Notes