This hardcover edition features the compiled early works of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Anthony Hecht, including the complete texts of The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and The Venetian Vespers. Published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1990, this stated first edition comes complete with its original unclipped dust jacket. The binding is firm, pages are clean and tight, and the dust jacket shows minimal shelf wear, making it an excellent collectible volume for poetry enthusiasts.

Author: Anthony Hecht Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Year: 1990 Special attributes: 1st edition, original dust jacket, jacket design by Harry Ford Topic: Poetry Subject: American literature Keywords: poetry, Anthony Hecht, hard hours, venetian vespers, millions of strange shadows, knopf, hardcover, collectible condition: Very Good condition with clean pages, tight binding, intact unclipped dust jacket showing light surface wear.

Provenance: From the personal library of Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), poet, anthropologist, translator, and a distinctive literary figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Educated in anthropology in Paris under Claude Lévi-Strauss and later at the University of Chicago, Tarn conducted fieldwork among the Maya of Guatemala and in Burma before turning increasingly toward a life devoted to literature and cultural criticism. He was widely recognized for his own poetry, for his influential translations of Pablo Neruda and other major international writers, and for his role in introducing world literature to English-language audiences.