Flight Among the Tombs: Poems

by Anthony Hecht

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679450955
• ISBN13: 9780679450955
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Another stunning collection from Hecht

Hecht has to be one of the greatest living poets we have, and Flight Among the Tombs is another example of this. It is chiefly a sequence of poems where Death speaks as or through someone else. It is a powerful sequence of poems set with wood engravings Leonard Baskin. The combination is stunning. The section section of the book is a few poems added, I'm guessing, to make this a book-length collection. Luckily, with a poet of Hecht's caliber, the filler poems are just as good as the main portion of the book.