Hecht’s “Saul and David” captures the power of music to soothe a restless soul.
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David’s Music in a Time of Illness
This Hecht poem about David performing for Saul soothed my own bout with illness.
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Who Has Begotten the Drops of Dew?
To celebrate Rosh Hashanah, I share this Anthony Hecht poem about his son Adam, who needs the reassurance that God’s Adam once needed.
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