The Next Ancient World

Hecht, Jennifer Michael

ISBN 10: 0971031002 / ISBN 13: 9780971031005

Published by Tupelo Press, 2001

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First printing of poet's first book. As new. Mint. Norma Farber First Book Award 2002, Foreward Magazine Book of the Year, Tupelo Press Judge's Prize. Seller Inventory # 504

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Next Ancient World

Publisher: Tupelo Press

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As new

Edition: First edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

What Jennifer Michael Hecht manages to accomplish, in poems that demonstrate a mastery of craft and a uniquely voiced understanding buoyed with an air of brilliance, is astonishing. Her introduction explains - in her endlessly appealing half-outrageous, half-conspiratorial voice - her purpose: to offer a guidebook for those that come after. We are the next ancient world, and Hecht chronicles our motivations, our interactions, our dreams and half-remembered thoughts with wit, aching romance and savvy intuition.

Out of the quotidian, Hecht manufactures something mythic. It is an unparalleled view that confers on the human condition an aspect of the eternal, that locates the momentous in every moment. In short, one cannot read one of her poems without an equal measure of relish and envy.

The Next Ancient World offers a unique voice and vision, informed with full measures of play, wisdom, and the sheer joy of invention.

About the Author:

Jennifer Michael Hecht earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Columbia University and is a Professor of History at Nassau Community College. Her works include the award-winning poetry book The Next Ancient World (2001), published by Tupelo Press, Funny (University of Wisconsin Press,2005) winner of the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and the nonfiction books The End of the Soul (2005), Doubt: A History (2003), and The Happiness Myth(2008).