Robert Hass, Author . Shoemaker & Hoard $25 (301p) ISBN 978-1-59376-146-2
In 1997, former poet laureate Hass inaugurated the now famous Poet's Choice column in the Washington Post Book World
, in which he chose a poem and accompanied it with explanation or context. The goal was to make poetry more accessible to the...
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Robert Hass, Author . Ecco $22.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-06-134960-7
Thefirst book in 10 years from former U.S. poet laureate Hass may be his best in 30: these new poems show a rare internal variety, even as they reflect his constant concerns. One is human impact “on the planet at the century's end”:
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Robert Hass, Author . Ecco $34.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-192382-1
Hass's first retrospective allows us to trace the development of the narrative voice he began cultivating most powerfully with 1979's Praise
. Who can forget their first reading of “Meditation at Lagunitas,” in which Hass tells
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Robert Hass, Author Ecco $17.95 (86p) ISBN 978-0-88001-211-9
In his third collection of poetry, Hass ( Praise ), National Book Critics Circle Award winner for criticism, writes elegiacally of the ``dizzying sensation'' of physical experience, and of natural beauty, ``casual and intense,'' to which words...
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Robert Hass, Author Ecco $22 (77p) ISBN 978-0-88001-468-7
Hass is Poet Laureate of the United States, a position through which he has worked to enlarge the cultural presence of poetry. Much the same ends are served in his new collection, which contains a remarkable range of themes and styles, all of them...
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Robert Hass. Ecco, $29.99 (296p) ISBN 978-0-06-192392-0
In this erudite and engaging collection of more than 30 essays, poet and UC-Berkeley professor Hass (Time and Materials) covers topics as eclectic as the lives of great writers; art’s relationship to violence; spirituality; the landscape photography
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Robert Hass. Ecco, $29.99 (488p) ISBN 978-0-06-233242-4
With specificity, clarity, and inspired insight, Hass (Times and Materials), a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, painstakingly dissects and analyzes poetic form. Hass’s reading is extensive, as shown by references to and...
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Robert Hass. Ecco, $27.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-295002-4
In this ruminative, endlessly clever book, Pulitzer Prize–winner Hass (The Apple Trees at Olema) turns his eye toward nature, love, and even drone strikes, as, when chronicling a visit to a Las Vegas Air Force base for a protest, he juxtaposes the...
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