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Readers of this volume-the first selected poems to be made from Hecht's seven individual volumes-will be captivated by Hecht's dark music and allusions to the literature of the past. As J. D. McClatchy explains in his introduction, Hecht was a poet for whom formal elegance was inextricably bound up with the dramatic force, thematic ambition, and powerful emotions in each poem. The rules of his art, which he both honored and transformed, are \"moral principles meant finally to reveal the structure of human dilemmas and sympathies.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This elevated sense of what poetry can accomplish defines our experience of reading Hecht, and will ensure his place in the canon for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Adam and Eve knew such perfection once,\u003cbr\u003e God's finger in the cloud, and on the ground\u003cbr\u003e Nothing but springtime, nothing else at all.\u003cbr\u003e But in our fallen state where the blood hunts\u003cbr\u003e For blood, and rises at the hunting sound,\u003cbr\u003e What do we know of lasting since the fall?\u003cbr\u003e Who has not, in the oil and heat of youth,\u003cbr\u003e Thought of the flourishing of the almond tree,\u003cbr\u003e The grasshopper, and the failing of desire,\u003cbr\u003e And thought his tongue might pierce the secrecy\u003cbr\u003e Of the six-pointed starlight, and might choir\u003cbr\u003e A secret-voweled, unutterable truth?\u003cbr\u003e -from \"A Poem for Julia\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582750466321,"sku":"GOR004947165","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001839223057,"sku":"NIN9780375711985","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694093697297,"sku":"CIN0375711988G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52345102762257,"sku":"NLS9780375711985","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52693094662417,"sku":"CIN0375711988VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53151620563217,"sku":"GOR014781979","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375711988.jpg?v=1750813685"},{"product_id":"collected-poems-of-anthony-hecht-book-anthony-hecht-9780593319192","title":"Collected Poems of Anthony Hecht","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice . 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