Selected Poems of Anthony Hecht
$33.66
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2011
Summary
The rich career of Anthony Hecht, captured in a Borzoi Poets format, is the first ever “selected” edition of his work. Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series.
Hecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World War II, participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, lived and experienced the best and worst of the twe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375711985 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375711988 |
| Author: | Anthony Hecht, J.D. McClatchy |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 180mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Borzoi Poetry |
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About The Author
Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht was born in 1923. He was the author of seven books of poetry, including The Hard Hours, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. He received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1983), the Eugenio Montale Award (1984), the Wallace Stevens Award (1997), and the Robert Frost Medal (2000). He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in 2004.
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