Flight Among the Tombs: Poems

It is impossible to talk about Anthony Hecht's poetry without using that unfashionable, discredited and necessary term, beauty. Hecht's poems aim unabashedly at being beautiful, and they usually succeed, often brilliantly....But Hecht understands that the beautiful is not the merely pretty or elegant....A profound sense of tragic beauty pervades Hecht's magnificent new collection, 'Flight Among the Tombs'. It would be hard to find a darker book. The main subject is death. Yet every dire and unillusioned poem is strangely delightful."Anthony Hecht is the author of 'Flight Among the Tombs: Poems', published 1998 under ISBN 9780679765929 and ISBN 0679765921.