American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku . The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with ...
For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal dimension to the ceremony. Includes examples of wedding ceremonies from various cultures.
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 ...
The first book in seven years from the Poet Laureate of the United States. Nominated for the 1996 National Book Award, and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 1997.
This landmark anthology, part of a series that will eventually cover the entire century, gathers nearly 1500 poems by over 200 poets to restore American poetry's most brilliant era in all its beauty, explosive energy, and extraordinary diversity. Included are generous selections of the century's great poets -- Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, ...
Robert Hass, America's poet laureate from 1995 to 1997, selects his own favorite poems. They include work by Jane Kenyon, James Merrill, John Keats, Paul Celan, William Carlos Williams, and many more. Each poem includes a brief introduction and Hass's insights into how and why it works.
Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Bonner Award for Poetry, Germany's Petrarch Prize, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Tomas Transtromer captures the mood of an era which is at once lonely and threatening. Few poets are capable of relating basic truths about the human condition in troubled times with such quiet ...
During his tenure as US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived the popular nineteenth-century tradition of including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice" ultimately became a nationally syndicated column appearing in dozens of papers across the country. Every week, Hass would marry poets and poetry to headlines and holidays. Proceeding in ...
Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass guest-edited this anthology of 75 favorite poems published in literary journals. Work by Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, Jorie Graham, Robert Creeley, and many others is included.
The California-based River of Words (ROW) has gained fame as an important nonprofit that trains teachers, park naturalists, grassroots groups, and others to incorporate observation-based nature exploration and the arts into young people's lives. One of the group's most important annual projects is to take the youth pulse from the United States and ...
Begun in the winter of 1955 and completed in the spring of 1956, Treatise on Poetry is a brilliant meditative poem fully expressive of the powers that have made Milosz one of our greatest writers. Expertly translated, the poem is divided into four parts -- Europe at the turn of the century, the condition of Polish culture between the two world ...
This landmark anthology, part of a series that will eventually cover the entire century, gathers nearly 1500 poems by over 200 poets to restore American poetry's most brilliant era in all its beauty, explosive energy, and extraordinary diversity. Included are generous selections of the century's great poets -- Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, ...
An anthology of fifty poets captured in Margaretta Mitchell's gorgeous black and white portraits, brief biographies, and selections of two to three poems per poet. Together, these elements provide a composite portrait of contemporary American poetry.
The poems collected here, in Robert Hass's last volume before he was named United States Poet Laureate, express both the simplicities and the complexities of human relationships, including the dynamics of fatherhood, friendship, and love. Much of the collection reads as if Hass is sharing a moment of clarity he obtained in solitude. An eclectic ...
From white-knuckle rafting rides to fishing stories to eco-essays, this collection of true stories by such writers as Barry Lopez and Gabriel Garcia Marquez explores the historical, practical, and spiritual significance of rivers.
Hass links the poetic elements of the work song, the spiritual, of rhythm & blues and rap, and of poems written in Yiddish, in Chinese, and in Spanish. He hears the silence of the haiku in what becomes the spare and modernist. Through his gift for such brilliant connections, Hass presents nothing less than a working anthology of the New American ...
A collection of environmental paintings and poems taken from the River of Words (ROW) annual poetry and art contest for students K-12. ROW was co-founded in 1995 by Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and writer Pamela Michael to promote literacy, the arts, and environmental awareness. The artwork and poetry is focused on water and the book ...
Winner of the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, this now classic collection of essays focuses on three often-overlooked elements of contemporary poetry: its depth of feeling and imagination; its high degree of often-concealed craft; and its connectedness with tradition.
These experimental poems, by the winner of the Book Award from the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, examine the way the self fits into the expanse of time, and how memory affects the present.
The idea of the American wilderness has long captivated artists fascinated by the ways in which its unspoiled natural beauty embodies the nation's identity. This lavishly produced volume celebrates the unsurpassed splendour of a fabled region, while also presenting the environmental complexities of managing a vast landscape in which the needs of ...
This book-length poem by Nobel Prize recipient Milosz addresses Eastern European poetry in the 20th century. A native of Poland, Milosz offers insight on Poland before the war, through the turbulence of Nazism, into the poet's emigration to France, and on into his experiences in the United States. In this meditation on history and the individual ...
A new selection of the poems of one of the most perennially popular of all American poets, made by a distinguished critic and poet and long-time student of Jeffers's work--to honor Jeffers's centenary.
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