Pleasures of the Game by Austin Allen Books ‘Witty

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Pleasures of the Game by Austin Allen Books ‘WittyPleasures of the Game, the latest winner of the prestigious annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, is a book of deceptively playful poems, of sparkling surfaces that conceal dark undercurrents. Its subjects include games of all kinds: from schoolyard Double Dutch to the chess match of love, from painters illusions to professional ice hockey, from the stratagems of spies to the life and death game we play against the universe.