Between The Lines is a small British house which publishes extraordinary, book-length interviews with senior poets, including Wilbur, Justice, Gunn, Heaney, Hecht, etc. The book in which Philip Hoy interviews Hecht is probably the best of a fine lot. You can read extracts from the Hecht book and the others at
www.interviews-with-poets.com. Simply click the thumbnail picture of the poet you want to read.
OK, Mastery fans, please post your questions by tomorrow evening, and I'll print them and fax them to Mr. Hecht. His answers will appear around Monday. With his having no access to a computer, we can't have the give and take we've had with previous guest Lariats, but we can all discuss his answers afterward. If this works well, the convenience store downslope from Wilbur's aerie in the Berkshires has a fax, and we'll repeat the experiment with Dick.