Jamey Hecht is the author of four books: Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); a translation, Sophocles' Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth, 2004); Bloom's How To Write About Homer (Chelsea House, 2010); and a collection of poems, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film (Red Hen Press, 2009). His poetry, criticism and journalism have appeared in some 30 publications including Black Warrior Review, Tikkun, and ELH. He enjoys acting in Shakespeare productions in Los Angeles with the Porters of Hellsgate.
About Limousine, Midnight Blue: This sequence of fifty 14-line elegies for President Kennedy uses the film of his murder as a prism through which to view America and the world. See http://www.jameyhecht.com for short one-poem videos with text; links; blurbs from BILLY COLLINS and PETER DALE SCOTT.
