Cafe Alibi

ISBN10: 0919688551
ISBN13: 9780919688551
Number Of Pages: 75
Publication Date: 20020816
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books
Binding: Hardback
SKU: 9780919688551
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Swift's Budavox: poems 1990-1999 explored sex, violence, art, and memory, to critical acclaim. His new collection, Café Alibi, written while the author lived abroad in Budapest and Paris, extends these concerns to include popular culture, history, desire, nostalgia, and the often competing claims of travel and home. Swift's crisp, elegant, deceptively calm language questions images of 'the child, the adult and the outside world' in ways both witty and disturbing. Café Alibi maps a stylish itinerary through exotic terrain, offering at once hostility and ultimate peace, poetry that puts love to the test and disarms our darkest fears.