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My Poetic Side

Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)

Author of Collected Earlier Poems

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Works by Anthony Hecht

Collected Earlier Poems 104 copies

Collected Later Poems 60 copies

Flight Among the Tombs: Poems 52 copies

The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden 47 copies

The Transparent Man 44 copies

The Venetian Vespers: Poems 44 copies, 1 review

Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins: Poetry… 44 copies

The Darkness and the Light: Poems 38 copies

The Hard Hours 37 copies

Millions of Strange Shadows 33 copies, 1 review

On the Laws of the Poetic Art 26 copies

Selected Poems 22 copies

Jiggery Pokery 20 copies, 4 reviews

Obbligati: Essays in Criticism 18 copies

The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht 12 copies

A Summoning of Stones 6 copies

Robert Lowell: A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on May 2,… 5 copies

A love for four voices : homage to Franz Joseph Haydn 4 copies

The Seven Deadly Sins 3 copies

Jiggery-pokery : a compendium of double dactyls 2 copies

The Various Light (Signed Limited Edition) 2 copies

The Dover Bitch [poem] 2 copies

Le ore dure (Author) 1 copy

Aesopic : twenty four couplets by Anthony Hecht to accompany the Thomas… 1 copy

Summoning of Stones 1 copy

The pathetic fallacy : a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on… 1 copy

Robert Lowell: A lecture 1 copy

Obligati: Essays in Criticism 1 copy

Quando solcai i tuoi abissi cover di Odi I.V; I. XXV di Quinto Orazio… 1 copy

Seance for a minyan : ten poems 1 copy

Seance for a Minyan: Ten Poems 1 copy

Interior Skies: Late Poems from Liguria 1 copy

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 853 copies, 7 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 669 copies, 3 reviews

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 424 copies, 3 reviews

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 406 copies, 1 review

Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 353 copies, 1 review

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Contributor) 330 copies, 9 reviews

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (Contributor) 305 copies, 2 reviews

The Faber Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 266 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Poetry 2001 (Contributor) 210 copies

The Best American Poetry 2005 (Contributor) 167 copies

The Best American Poetry 1998 (Contributor) 156 copies

Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Contributor) 154 copies

The Best American Poetry 1995 (Contributor) 153 copies, 1 review

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 138 copies, 1 review

Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to… (Contributor) 131 copies, 1 review

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 123 copies, 3 reviews

Poets of World War II (Contributor) 122 copies, 2 reviews

The Art of the Lathe (Introduction) 103 copies

Emergency Kit (Contributor, some editions) 100 copies, 1 review

The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous… (Contributor) 92 copies

The State of the Language [1990] (Contributor) 85 copies, 1 review

Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American… (Contributor) 83 copies, 1 review

American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 59 copies

Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review

Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (Contributor) 9 copies, 2 reviews

A Roman Collection: Stories, Poems, and Other Good Pieces (Contributor) 8 copies

Poem upon the Lisbon disaster = Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne, ou,… (Translator) 5 copies

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Bard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudon, New York, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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Washington, D.C., USA

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Columbia University

University of Iowa

Horace Mann School

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Kerouac, Jack (classmate)

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American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1970)

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Bollingen Prize (1983)

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1988)

Frost Medal (2000)

National Medal of Arts (2004)

Wallace Stevens Award (1997)

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Modern American Poetry page

Paris Review interview (1988)

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