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by: Robert Hass
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780061349607
ISBN: 0061349607
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Sales Rank: 15776
Studio: Ecco
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The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.
His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of history; the power and limits of language; and, as in his other books, domestic life and the conversation between men and women. New themes emerge as well, perhaps: the essence of memory and of time.
The works here look at paintings, at Gerhard Richter as well as Vermeer, and pay tribute to his particular literary masters, friend Czesław Miłosz, the great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, Horace, Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, and Lucretius. We are offered glimpses of a surprisingly green and vibrant twenty-first-century Berlin; of the demilitarized zone between the Koreas; of a Bangkok night, a Mexican desert, and an early summer morning in Paris, all brought into a vivid present and with a passionate meditation on what it is and has been to be alive. 'It has always been Mr. Hass's aim,' the New York Times Book Review wrote, 'to get the whole man, head and heart and hands and everything else, into his poetry.'
Every new volume by Robert Hass is a major event in poetry, and this beautiful collection is no exception.
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Rating:  - Stunning
This is simply astonishing poetry;Hass is,without question,the finest poet writing today in the United States.His work is elegant,fearless and humane.Whole passages are touched by genius,especially when he writes-urgently - of the madness of war. No historian or statesman has ever placed the multiple holocausts of the twentieth century in more clear-eyed perspective than does Hass in his poetic forms.In April,this book received the Pulitzer Prize for 2008. When today's poetry is catalogued and discussed ... Read More
Rating: - The Pleasure of Reading Robert Hass
If I only had to buy one book of poetry this year, it would be "Time And Materials" by Robert Hass. I say this because Hass is poet who can combine soulful meditation about his physical existence in a world surrounded by danger from humanity's destructive forces, to his own private personal inner thoughts of joy and sorrow from having lived his life between that hostile world and the world that creates art.
I like to think that if Baudelaire were born and raised in San Francisco in the 1950s, ... Read More
Rating: - haas does it again
Robert Haas, former poet laureate USA, has a problem: he doesn't write enough. But then that may be our problem. His readership hangs on every poem, every word in every poem. And they (WE, US)WANT MORE.
Not high flown nor lofty, his verse covers his chosen terrain, ordinary things from the ground-view vantage point. It takes us over the moguls and the pot holes with enough bounce that we know these rough spots are there but we're not jolted skyward out of our seats.
Obscurantism has ... Read More
Rating: - A beautiful book
Embrace The Light; a women's story through poetry to touch your heartPoetry which will inspire the heart, mind and soul
Rating: - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
I'm thrilled that Hass won it, as no one deserves it more. It's been a decade since his last book, and the contemplation of time and materials he experienced has constructed this continually delighting and surprising book, which I'd put up there with Field Guide and Praise as my three favorite books by Hass, who has become one of our most vocal ecological poets.
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