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Köp båda 2 för 273 krSome years - no decades! - ago, Anthony Hecht was pleased to call the poems in The Hard Hours, his second book, 'a few snapshots from along the Via Negativa.' Loyal to that figuration the poet remains, though how much more intense the chiaroscuro here, how much deeper the imprint: these are the poems of Horatio after so much of Denmark's personnel has been cleared away, meditating loss and survival, rich with a survivor's torn wisdom. For all the glee of the poesis, Hecht's lines are severe even in their civility, their music wild even in its mastery. Rendered in his eighth book is the judgment of an unrelenting and an unreconciled art. Richard Howard The music of his work, and the gorgeous precision of his language, are as strong as ever. Carmela Ciuraru, San Francisco Chronicle The forty-six poems in this latest volume reflect the distinct versality and disciplined precision that have marked his craft, in both free and strictly formal verse, from the beginning... If certain poets are still regarded as prophets, gifted with extraordinary spiritual and moral insight, Anthony Hecht is surely a price among prophets. Charles Guenther, St Louis Post-Dispatch