{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-anthony-hecht-paperback","title":"Selected Poems of Anthony Hecht - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJ. D. McClatchy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World War II, participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, lived and experienced the best and worst of the twentieth century. Readers of this volume--the first selected poems to be made from Hecht's seven individual volumes--will be captivated by Hecht's dark music and allusions to the literature of the past. As J. D. McClatchy explains in his introduction, Hecht was a poet for whom formal elegance was inextricably bound up with the dramatic force, thematic ambition, and powerful emotions in each poem. The rules of his art, which he both honored and transformed, are \"moral principles meant finally to reveal the structure of human dilemmas and sympathies.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis elevated sense of what poetry can accomplish defines our experience of reading Hecht, and will ensure his place in the canon for years to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdam and Eve knew such perfection once, \u003cbr\u003eGod's finger in the cloud, and on the ground\u003cbr\u003eNothing but springtime, nothing else at all.\u003cbr\u003eBut in our fallen state where the blood hunts\u003cbr\u003eFor blood, and rises at the hunting sound, \u003cbr\u003eWhat do we know of lasting since the fall?\u003cbr\u003eWho has not, in the oil and heat of youth, \u003cbr\u003eThought of the flourishing of the almond tree, \u003cbr\u003eThe grasshopper, and the failing of desire, \u003cbr\u003eAnd thought his tongue might pierce the secrecy\u003cbr\u003eOf the six-pointed starlight, and might choir\u003cbr\u003eA secret-voweled, unutterable truth?\u003cbr\u003e--from \"A Poem for Julia\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1923. He was the author of seven books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Hours, \u003c\/i\u003e which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. He received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1983), the Eugenio Montale Award (1984), the Wallace Stevens Award (1997), and the Robert Frost Medal (2000). He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702079975731,"sku":"9780375711985","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/LmH5U2L7wI9780375711985.webp?v=1763290558","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-anthony-hecht-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}