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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.

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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).

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"...completely astonishing. Fast, fiery, cut-to-the-quick, street-smart and woman-wise, as sophisticated as you can be..." -- Lawrence Joseph

"...deconstructed soap-opera, a one-hundred-ring verbal circus, a gang of brazen, ingenious poems." -- Billy Collins

"Sharp and ripe, smart-alecky and wise, Hecht's poems...reveal a world far more witty than we thought..." --Janet Holmes (competition judge's summary)

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  • PublisherTupelo Press
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0971031002
  • ISBN 13 9780971031005
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
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  • Number of pages78
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