The poetry of Anthony Hecht has been praised by Harold Bloom and
Ted Hughes, among others, for its sure control of difficult
material and its unique music and visual precision. This new volume
is the fruit of a mellowing maturity that carries with it a smoky
bitterness, a flavor of ancient and experienced wisdom, as in this
stanza from " Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-seven"
A turn, a glide, a quarter-turn and bow,
The stately dance advances; these are airs
Bone-deep and numbing as I should know
by now,
Diminishing the cast, like musical chairs.
Hecht' s verse-- by turns lyric and narrative, formal and free-- is
grounded in the compassion that comes from a deep understanding of
every kind of human depredation, yet is tempered by flashes of wry
comedy, and still more by innocent pleasure in the gifts of the
natural world. Followers of his poetry will recognize an evolution
of style in many of these poems-- a quiet and understated voice,
passing through darkness toward realms of delight.
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