The Next Ancient World

Poetry. "Jennifer Michael Hecht writes delightfully tricky poems that wildly bend the sense of our language as they swerve back and forth between the realms of the colloquial and the absurd. The result of these maneuvers is THE NEXT ANCIENT WORLD—a deconstructed soap-opear, a one-hundred-ring verbal circus, a gang of brazen, ingenious poems" —Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate. Winner of the Tupelo Press Judge's Prize in Poetry (judged by Janet Holmes), this is Hecht's first book of poems. She is currently writing A History of Doubt for HarperCollins