Collected Later Poems - Rilegato

Hecht, Anthony

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1400041384 ISBN 13: 9781400041381

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Riassunto

In honor of his eightieth birthday, an omnibus edition brings together selections from the poet's three most recent collections--The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light--in which he contemplates the mortal fate of humankind with trademark wit, insight, and dark humor.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Anthony Hecht is the author of seven books of poetry, including <i>The Hard Hours,</i> which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. He is also the author of several volumes of essays and criticism, among them a book-length study of the poetry of W. H. Auden called <i>The Hidden Law</i>. He has received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1983), the Eugenio Montale Award (1984), the Wallace Stevens Award (1997), and the Robert Frost Medal (2000). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–<i>The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, </i>and<i> The Darkness and the Light</i>. The perfect companion to his <i>Collected Earlier Poems </i>(continuously in print since 1990), this book brings the eloquent sound of Hecht’s music to bear on a wide variety of human dramas: from a young woman dying of leukemia to the tangled love affairs of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream;</i> from Death as the director of Hollywood films to the unexpected image of Marcel Proust as a figure skater.<br><br>He glides with a gaining confidence, inscribes<br>Tentative passages, thinks again, backtracks,<br>Comes to a minute point,<br>Then wheels about in widening sweeps and lobes,<br>Large Palmer cursives and smooth <i>entrelacs,<br></i>Preoccupied, intent<br><br>On a subtle, long-drawn style and pliant script<br>Incised with twin steel blades and qualified<br>Perfectly to express,<br>With arms flung wide or gloved hands firmly gripped<br>Behind his back, attentively, clear-eyed,<br>A glancing happiness.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1400041384
• ISBN 13: 9781400041381
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 231
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile