Flight Among the Tombs
Poems
Published on 25. February 2009
88 pages
978-0-307-55620-2 (ISBN)
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Divided into two parts, this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called "Presumptions of Death, " reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hecht's other poems written since his last book, The Transparent Man.
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Anthony Hecht's first book of poems, A Summoning of Stones, appeared in 1954. It was followed by The Hard Hours, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. Millions of Strange Shadows was published in 1977, and The Venetian Vespers in 1979. The last three titles, together with the author's selection from the first book was published in 1990 as Collected Earlier Poems, together with a new book, The Transparent Man. He is the author also of a book of critical essays, , 1986; The Hidden Law, 1993, his study of the poetry of W.H. Auden; and On the Laws of the Poetic Art, 1995, the Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992. He has taught widely, most recently as University Professor in the Graduate School of Georgetown University, from which he has recently retired. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part 1 - The Presumptions Of Death
- Chapter 1 - Death Sauntering About
- Chapter 2 - Death The Hypocrite
- Chapter 3 - Death Demure
- Chapter 4 - Peekaboo
- Chapter 5 - All Out
- Chapter 6 - Death Riding Into Town
- Chapter 7 - Death The Inquisitor
- Chapter 8 - Death The Oxford Don
- Chapter 9 - Death As A Member Of The Haarlem Guild Of St. Luke
- Chapter 10 - Death The Knight
- Chapter 11 - Death The Archbishop
- Chapter 12 - Death The Society Lady
- Chapter 13 - Death The Poet
- Chapter 14 - Death The Painter
- Chapter 15 - Death The Judge
- Chapter 16 - Death The Mexican: Revolutionary
- Chapter 17 - Death The Punchinello
- Chapter 18 - Death The Whore
- Chapter 19 - Death The Film Director
- Chapter 20 - Death The Copperplate Printer
- Chapter 21 - Death The Scholar
- Chapter 22 - Death The Carnival Barker
- Part 2 - Proust On Skates
- Chapter 23 - The Whirligig Of Time
- Chapter 24 - A Ruminant
- Chapter 25 - Prospects
- Chapter 26 - For James Merrill: An Adieu
- Chapter 27 - Sisters
- Chapter 28 - The Message
- Chapter 29 - The Mysteries Of Caesar
- Chapter 30 - To Fortuna Parvulorum
- Chapter 31 - A Pledge
- Chapter 32 - The Life Of Crime
- Chapter 33 - La-Bas: A Trance
- Chapter 34 - Matisse: Blue Interior With Two Girls-1947
- Chapter 35 - Proust On Skates
- Chapter 36 - A Death In Winter
- Notes
- About The Author
- Copyright
