About this title: 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.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061349607ISBN:0061349607
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN-13:9780061349607ISBN:0061349607
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 10/7/2008
ISBN-13:9780061350283ISBN:0061350281
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ecco, New York
Date Published: 2007
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BT2-An uncorrected proof trade paperback in near fine condition that has light discoloration and shelf wear. The first new book in ten years from one of our most distinguished living poets. 9"x6", 87 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061349607ISBN:0061349607
Description: New in New jacket. Item is brand new from publisher overstock. May have Publishers remainder mark on the edge just to assure it is not returned to the store. Hardcover with dust jacket. From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. 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: a nine-part verse-essay addressed to the ... read more
Description: Fine. Excellent condition. Pages are absolutely clean. Gift message (few words only) inscribed on inside cover, otherwise perfect. Hardcover with dust jacket. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ecco Pr
Date Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN-13:9780061350283ISBN:0061350281
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Pr
Date Published: 2007-10-01
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061350283ISBN:0061350281
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 96 pages. Written by the poet whose work is grounded in the beauty of the physical world, in the smaller details of natural, human life. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061349607ISBN:0061349607
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"Oy. Most disappointing. Why do so many poets, like Hass, insist on stretching their talent into long-winded poems? Something to be said for concision, no? His "Sun Under Wood" is so much better, tighter. I was bored reading this (which very very rarely happens).
"A nice range in this book: teeny tiny poems, very long single-stanza things, series, confessional narratives, political poems. It seems like Hass uses nature as a way out, sometimes. Like, the poem will be in the middle of an intense, sticky conflict, and he'll up and end it with, like, "Oh, we'll all die some day anyway and turn into trees." But this only happens sometimes. Most of the time the poems seem very whole."
"Robert Hass?s first volume of poetry, Field Guide, was published by the Yale Series of Younger Poets, one of the most prestigious awards for a young poet. He has since won most of the major poetry awards as well as being appointed Poet Laureate of the United States.
In Time and Materials, Hass produces a gentle, elegiac, late music in his translations of Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz and others, family poems, and poems of the Iraq War which are, as Hass has said in an interview, ?the buzz? if not their subject. At a recent reading, Hass also read raw, moving poems about the death of his brother that incorporated blues lyrics. To paraphrase one of his poems, "The old narrative is all about loss, the new narrative is loss."
There is a remarkable generosity and openness to Hass?s recent work, and a globe-spanning amplitude that he shares with his mentor and friend Milosz who, Hass said, contains in his work all of twentieth-century European history. In his first book, the poet seemed to be a California regionalist, detailing his home state?s flora and fauna with a naturalist?s eye. On the other hand I recall the Vietnam-era poem in that first book, which closes with, ?citizens wake to murder in their moral dreams."
In the cleansing way that an articulation of grief will, Robert Hass?s Time and Materials will break your heart."
"Ars-poetic-centric. He can nail the western haiku and that inner-contemplation thing that comes from that form and it's derivatives, but it's a question of style and taste; he's the usual quite intellectualism of white american poets obsessed with Asian poets and forms. But, most of the book still seems foreign from him. As if he's imitating the very thing he is studying, rather than using the Asian philosophy and more specifically, its Haiku, as an influence - which he dpes do in the excellent poem "The Dry Mountain Air." Nevertheless, he has broken some ground in poetic theory- I do see why so many people might like this book, but as for me, I think I might like his essays more. For example, his "Listening and Making" is a must read for free verse poets interested in free rhythm.
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