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Anthony Hecht now in his eightieth year has earned a place alongside suchpoets as W. H. Auden Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one coverare his three most recent collectionsThe Transparent Man Flight Among theTombs and The Darkness and the Light. The perfect companion to his CollectedEarlier Poems continuously in print since 1990 this book brings the eloquentsound of Hechts music to bear on a wide variety of human dramas from a youngwoman dying of leukemia to the tangled love affairs of A Midsummer NightsDream from Death as the director of Hollywood films to the unexpected image ofMarcel Proust as a figure skater.He glides with a gaining confidence inscribesTentative passages thinks again backtracksComes to a minute pointThen wheels about in widening sweeps and lobesLarge Palmer cursives and smooth entrelacsPreoccupied intentOn a subtle longdrawn style and pliant scriptIncised with twin steel blades and qualifiedPerfectly to expressWith arms flung wide or gloved hands firmly grippedBehind his back attentively cleareyedA glancing happiness.From the Hardcover edition. «
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