Chekhov's Mistress
Yezzi on Hecht and Landscape
You are perfectly right to see arid and defeated landscapes cropping up in a good number of my poems, as is the case with certain winter scenes of Breughel. They were for me a means to express a desolation of the soul.
Anthony Hecht, from an article by poet David Yezzi in the New Criterion’s Web section.
(Aug-05 Anthony Hecht & landscape)
Ah, and I must mention that Yezzi, who wrote another interesting piece at NC a while back on form and formalism is teaching a seminar this fall on prosody at the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92 street Y. Yours Truly will be in attendance and be reporting back here on all eight sessions.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: August 15, 2005
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