"Jennifer Michael Hecht writes delightfully tricky poems that
wildly bend the sense of our language."--Billy Collins, former US
Poet Laureate
"Hecht's rhymes are irregular, gymnastic, pointed, and fun;
she's found what so many would-be populists seek, an idiom entirely
conversational yet able to sustain unexpected ideas."--"The
Believer"
"Who Said" is a meditation on life's profound questions told
through playful engagement with iconic poems and lyrics. Jennifer
Michael Hecht's book is a magic echo chamber wherein great poems
come back to us, altered to fit the concerns of our moment. This
wildly interpretive treatment of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and
the rock band Nirvana is original, occasionally hilarious, and
always moving.
From "Not Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening":
""Promises to keep," was a lie, he had nothing. Throughthe
woods. Over the river and into the pain. It is an addict'stalk of
quitting as she's smacking at a vein. He was alwaysgoing into the
woods. It was he who wrote, "The only way"
"around is through." You'd think a shrink, but no, a poet. He
saw the woods and knew. The forest is the one that holdspromises.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, they fillwith a quiet snow.
Miles are traveled as we sleep. He steers"
"his horse off the road. Among the trees now, the blizzardis a
dusting. Holes in the canopy make columns of snowstorm, lit from
above. His little horse thinks it is queer. They godeeper, sky gets
darker. It's the darkest night of the year . . . "
Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of several nonfiction
titles, most recently "The Happiness Myth" (HarperOne). She teaches
at The New School and lives in the BoCoCa neighborhood in Brooklyn,
New York.
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