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Robert Hass has, for a long time, held a prominent position among the most revered of all living poets. Unlike the more difficult, cerebral poetry of writers like John Ashbery, Hass' work is grounded in the beauty of the physical world, in the smaller details of natural, human life. His poetry is graceful, humble, curious, and wise. Because he has published so little work, every new book is a major event in poetry, and this will be no exception.
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Hass
EAN: 9780061350283
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 163 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-11-12
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GENRE: POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Narrative theme: Sense of place
"No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass." -- Atlantic Monthly
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco, 2008), Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996), Human Wishes (1989), Praise (1979), and Field Guide (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer's Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
