The Transparent Man - Softcover
The author's first book in eleven years, this collection includes a narrative poem recalling the devastating breakup of a marriage, and a chamber music poem based on a Haydn quartet and the lovers from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Hecht's first new collection in 11 years--his fifth since 1954--smoothly complements his simultaneously published Collected Earlier Poems, sharing its elegant milieu: the European city, the concert hall, the art museum. In intricate formal patterns that even his ablest contemporaries (James Merrill and John Hollander)--would envy, Hecht delivers elegies, lyrics, and dramatic monologs with equal grace and wit. But one poem rises monolithically above the rest. "See Naples and Die" is a travel narrative at once funny ("only a nation/ Devoted to the cult of the madonna/ With all its doctrinal embellishments/ Could produce 'extra virgin olive oil' ") and grim (the Elysian Fields are "a vacant wilderness of weeds"). If filmed by Fellini or painted by Bosch, the story could not be more harrowing or apocalyptic.
- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Antapodosis: 1
Anthem
Aqntapodosis: 2
The Book Of Yolek
A Bountiful Harvest
Chorus From Oedipus At Colonos
Crows In Winter
Curriculum Vitae
Destinations
Devotions Of A Painter
Eclogue Of The Shepherd And The Townie
Envoi
Humoresque
In Memory Of David Kalstone
Meditation
Naming The Animals
Poem Without Anybody
Riddles
See Naples And Die: 1
See Naples And Die: 2
See Naples And Die: 3
See Naples And Die: 4
See Naples And Die: 5
See Naples And Die: 6
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To L.e. Sissman, 1928-1976
The Transparent Man
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Anthem
Aqntapodosis: 2
The Book Of Yolek
A Bountiful Harvest
Chorus From Oedipus At Colonos
Crows In Winter
Curriculum Vitae
Destinations
Devotions Of A Painter
Eclogue Of The Shepherd And The Townie
Envoi
Humoresque
In Memory Of David Kalstone
Meditation
Naming The Animals
Poem Without Anybody
Riddles
See Naples And Die: 1
See Naples And Die: 2
See Naples And Die: 3
See Naples And Die: 4
See Naples And Die: 5
See Naples And Die: 6
Terms
To L.e. Sissman, 1928-1976
The Transparent Man
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0679733582
- ISBN 13 9780679733584
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages75
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