{"product_id":"9780375710308","title":"Collected Later Poems","description":"Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–\u003ci\u003eThe Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Darkness and the Light\u003c\/i\u003e. The perfect companion to his \u003ci\u003eCollected Earlier Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(continuously in print since 1990), this book brings the eloquent sound of Hecht’s music to bear on a wide variety of human dramas: from a young woman dying of leukemia to the tangled love affairs of \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream;\u003c\/i\u003e from Death as the director of Hollywood films to the unexpected image of Marcel Proust as a figure skater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe glides with a gaining confidence, inscribes\u003cbr\u003eTentative passages, thinks again, backtracks,\u003cbr\u003eComes to a minute point,\u003cbr\u003eThen wheels about in widening sweeps and lobes,\u003cbr\u003eLarge Palmer cursives and smooth \u003ci\u003eentrelacs,\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePreoccupied, intent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a subtle, long-drawn style and pliant script\u003cbr\u003eIncised with twin steel blades and qualified\u003cbr\u003ePerfectly to express,\u003cbr\u003eWith arms flung wide or gloved hands firmly gripped\u003cbr\u003eBehind his back, attentively, clear-eyed,\u003cbr\u003eA glancing happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012347052272,"sku":"9780375710308","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375710308_p0.jpg?v=1763691982","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375710308","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}