Cafe Alibi

Swift's Budavox: poems 1990-1999 explored sex, violence, art, and memory, to critical acclaim. His new collection, Cafi Alibi, written while the author lived abroad in Budapest and Paris, extends these concerns with 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. Cafi Alibi maps a stylish itinerary through exotic terrain, offering at once hostility and ultimate peace, poetrythat puts love to the test and disarms our darkest fears.