ANTHONY HECHT ~

 

R E A D   M E

I'll read a ton of poets before I sit down again with Anthony Hecht's poems,

but I have read him, and this biography performs a miracle raising the ante

on a somewhat dragged through the dust poet. Give me Stevens, of course,

and all by Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop

before Hecht, but read this biography — Hecht's literal writing 

and continuing and finally surviving is his poem.

    St. Martin's 2023