Hardcover. Navy cloth over boards with metallic copper lettering. Black illustrated dust jacket with yellow and blue lettering. Dated 1990 on copyright and title page. 75 pages. Stated first edition. Good condition. Binding is strong and corners are square. No bumps or rubbing. Pages are clean and free of marks. Dust jacket glossy and bright. Jacket beginning to tone. Overall good condition. SIGNED by author on title page. Please email with any questions or to see a few photos.

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Title

The Transparent Man[Signed]

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0394585062

ISBN 13

9780394585062

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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The author's first book in eleven years, this collection includes a narrative poem recalling the devastating breakup of a marriage, and a chamber music poem based on a Haydn quartet and the lovers from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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Hecht's first new collection in 11 years--his fifth since 1954--smoothly complements his simultaneously published Collected Earlier Poems, sharing its elegant milieu: the European city, the concert hall, the art museum. In intricate formal patterns that even his ablest contemporaries (James Merrill and John Hollander)--would envy, Hecht delivers elegies, lyrics, and dramatic monologs with equal grace and wit. But one poem rises monolithically above the rest. "See Naples and Die" is a travel narrative at once funny ("only a nation/ Devoted to the cult of the madonna/ With all its doctrinal embellishments/ Could produce 'extra virgin olive oil' ") and grim (the Elysian Fields are "a vacant wilderness of weeds"). If filmed by Fellini or painted by Bosch, the story could not be more harrowing or apocalyptic.
- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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