About this title: 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.
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Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780880015578ISBN:0880015578
Description: Good. Cover shows some edge wear and creasing. Light soiling on sides of book. Slight creasing or wear on some page edges or corners. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Excellent deal for students looking to save! read more
Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Ecco Press, Hopewell, NJ
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014687ISBN:0880014687
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine d/j jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Library indentification sticker on lower front cover and bar code on front and rear on d/j under mylar, d/j taped on, library label and withdrawn stamp on front endpaper. 77 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014687ISBN:0880014687
Description: Near Fine in Good jacket. Poetry. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Near fine condition black and grey hardcover in good plus condition mylar covered pictorial DJ. Bit of light wear to book. Library markings and rubbing to dustjacket. American poetry. read more
Description: New Poems. (NY): The Ecco Press, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. Near fine. A “United States Poet Laureate” sticker on the front of the dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press, Hopewell, NJ
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014687ISBN:0880014687
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first edition & first printing. United States Poet Laureate. Minimal shelf wear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ecco Pr
Date Published: 1998-03-01
ISBN-13:9780880015578ISBN:0880015578
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780880015578. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780880015578ISBN:0880015578
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press, New Jersey
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014687ISBN:0880014687
Description: As New in Very Good jacket. 6 x 9. In as new condition with a very good dj. Dj shows slight edgewear and minor scuffing. The author's fourth collection of poetry. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: 1996, Ecco Press, first edition.
Description: The United States Poet Laureate explores nature and human history, solitude and the bonds of children, parents and lovers. Book is in excellent condition although three pages have notations written ne xt to the poems. DJ is in excellent condition and features a gold sticker reading "United States Poet Laureate. " Brodart protected. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014687ISBN:0880014687
Description: Fine in Near Fine-Fine jacket. Signed by Author SIGNED by the author. Very clean and tight with white crisp pages. No remainder mark. No writing or marks. Dust jacket not price-clipped and now in protective Brodart. read more
"Largely meditative, this collection is at times playful and serious. Many of the poems are long and conversational, as though Hass wants us to experience the inner mind. At times, the collection doesn't seem very poetic, or steps outside of the seriousness of poetry, as when he asks the reader the rhythm of a line and then places the line into "Emily's four and three." In another poem, he experiments with the expression of the same thought through different characterizations - the romantic, the regionalist, the saint, and the capitalist. The collection has a somnolent feel, but Hass is serious about his busines, as he makes clear with the beautiful metaphor of grace as "ordinary light,/faint music under things, a hovering"."
"I picked this book up during a weekend home (that is, where my parents live), from a shelf of my treasured titles; somewhere between Allen Ginsberg (first edition, signed, personalized) and Arthur Miller (special edition, signed), sat Robert Hass (first edition, signed, personalized). It happened to be National Poetry Month, and, after I started to reread his book, Hass won the Pulitzer for his most recent title - as if my selecting him on a weekend home had something to do with the greater selection. You're welcome, Mr. Hass.
The signature and "For Cory, best," stem from a visit he made to my college when he was teaching at my school's rival years ago. He read in a small classroom, and I remember him perched on the edge of a desk, reading from there not a podium, and us students gathered around him, as if at the feet of the wise man, a memory probably aided by the selection of haiku he read that day, that he had translated, along with his own poems. He had a kind of Buddhist air about him, calm, and I remember thinking, "Maybe I chose to attend the wrong school," because that day, in close proximity to a man of letters his steady voice and smile, his one (loafered?) foot on the ground, the other swinging as he balanced on the edge of the desk I thought "I'm glad I'm here right now." Yet that feeling was fleeting, as was Hass's visit, and I was already finding it harder and harder to find reasons to stay.
Now, reading his poems again, I find a sense of humanity some joy, sensuality, humor, suffering, and hard-won wisdom. I find more to relate to than I ever could have when I first read these poems. I find these lines in a poem called "Faint Music":
"I had the idea that the world's so full of pain it must sometimes make a kind of singing. And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps - First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing."
I find that ten years after first reading these words I am still waiting for the singing."
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