What a coincidence! I just closed the cover on the Selected Letters!
I've been reading them alongside the poems - my introduction to Hecht. It's been fascinating.
Amazing to think he is gone, and yet, not. The voice in the letters often makes me laugh! And Richard Wilbur still here, and Daniel Hoffman, who will be honoured at WC this year.
Dave has sent off this morning his review of the Selected Letters. Great stories emerge therein.
So yes - I join you in a warm acknowledgement of Anthony Hecht's 90th!
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