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Book SynopsisThe New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • In his centenary year, this volume of the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate’s poems celebrates the indispensable artistry of a writer who faced the history of his era with a “clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness” (The New York Times Book Review) and was hailed in his day as “the best poet writing in English” (Joseph Brodsky).This volume brings together for the first time all of the poems that appeared in Anthony Hecht’s seven trade collections, from
A Summoning of Stones of 1954 through to
The Darkness and the Light of 2001; it adds the remarkable work contained in his posthumously issued
Interior Skies:
Late Poems from Liguria of 2011; and it rounds this out with the best of the many poems which were left uncollected at the time of his death in 2004, the earliest dating from 1950 and the latest from 2001. Including the w
