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Title: Millions of strange shadows: Poems by Anthony Hecht ISBN: 0-19-211873-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 1977 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Appreciation
Comment: This book of poems is not quite as good as The Venetian Vespers. But I find myself asking how any book of modern poetry could be. The title of the book comes from one of Shakespeare's love sonnets and is expressed in the final stanzas of "A Birthday Poem"

"The picture is black and white, mere light and shade.
Even the sneakers' red
Has washed away in acids. A voice is spent,
Echoing down the ages in my head:
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?

O my most dear, I know that live imprint
Of that smile of gratitude,
Know it more perfectly than any book.
It brims upon the world, a mood
Of love, a mode of gladness without stint.
O that I may be worthy of that look."

O that we readers may be appreciative of such a book!