Flight among the tombs : poems

Hecht, Anthony 1923-2004 (Author). Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000 (Added Author).

Summary:

The poetry of death. In Death of the Oxford Don, he writes: "Acquiring over years the appetite / And feeding habits of a parasite, / I live off the cold corpus of fine print, / Habited with black robes and heart of flint, / The word made flesh for me and me alone. / I gnaw and gnaw the satisfactory bone." With wood engravings by Leonard Baskin.

Contents:

Death sauntering about
Death the hypocrite
Death demure
Peekaboo
All out
Death riding into town
Death the inquisitor
Death the Oxford Don
Death as a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Death the knight
Death the archbishop
Death the society lady
Death the poet
Death the painter
Death the judge
Death the Mexican revolutionary

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Item details

ISBN: 9780679450955
ISBN: 0679450955
Physical Description: viii, 76 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
print
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76).
Formatted Contents Note:	Death sauntering about Death the hypocrite Death demure Peekaboo All out Death riding into town Death the inquisitor Death the Oxford Don Death as a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke Death the knight Death the archbishop Death the society lady Death the poet Death the painter Death the judge Death the Mexican revolutionary Death the punchinello Death the whore Death the film director Death the copperplate printer Death the scholar Death the carnival barker The whirligig of time A ruminant Prospects For James Merrill: an adieu Sisters The message The mysteries of Caesar To fortuna parvulorum A pledge The life of crime La-bàs: a trance Matisse: blue interior with two girls, 1947 Proust on skates A death in winter.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also issued online.