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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ANTHONY HECHT TO READ AT BRYN MAWR
Anthony Hecht, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will read from his work on Monday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Thomas Great Hall. The reading is free and open to the public. Hecht’s reading, the sixth event in the Creative Writing Program’s 2003-04 Reading Series, is sponsored by the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry and the Whitehill-Linn Fund. For more information, please call (610) 526-5210.
Hecht has published nine books of poetry, three books of criticism and many essays and reviews. Among his books are The Hard Hours, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, The Darkness and the Light, and Collected Later Poems. He is the translator, with Helen Bacon, of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes. His volumes of essays and criticism include, most recently, Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry.
As a young man, Hecht was attending Bard College when he left to serve in the army in Europe and Japan during World War II, which he says had a profound influence on his work. He returned home and finished his undergraduate degree under the G.I. Bill at Kenyon College, where he studied with John Crowe Ransom. He later received an M.A. from Columbia University and also holds several honorary degrees.
"Some poets are saved by grace, others by will. Mr. Hecht began as a poet of convenience and charm, of difficult form and baroque extravagance … Scarred by a history whose lessons will be ignored, and whose lessons will murder us, he has become our only poet who is able to horrify … The beauty of his language is stilled by the horror of his knowledge," says poet and critic William Logan.
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