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.

Item details

ISBN: 0679450955
ISBN: 9780679450955
Physical Description: print
viii, 76 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
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
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also issued online.