Flight Among the Tombs

Anthony Hecht has long been regarded as one of the great modern American poets. His new work is divided into two parts. The first, "Presumptions of Death", contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin, reproducing 22 wood engravings of death in many guises to illustrate the poems. The second part, "Proust on Skates", contains all Hecht's other poems written since his last book, "The Transparent Man", published in 1990.