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-"The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, "and" The
Darkness and the Light." The perfect companion to his "Collected
Earlier Poems "(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 "A Midsummer Night's Dream;" from Death as the
director of Hollywood films to the unexpected image of Marcel
Proust as a figure skater.
He glides with a gaining confidence, inscribes
Tentative passages, thinks again, backtracks,
Comes to a minute point,
Then wheels about in widening sweeps and lobes,
Large Palmer cursives and smooth "entrelacs,
"Preoccupied, intent
On a subtle, long-drawn style and pliant script
Incised with twin steel blades and qualified
Perfectly to express,
With arms flung wide or gloved hands firmly gripped
Behind his back, attentively, clear-eyed,
A glancing happiness.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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