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Robert Hass
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco, 20...view moreRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco, 2008), Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996), Human Wishes (1989), Praise (1979), and Field Guide (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.view less
Books by Robert Hass
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ecopoetry Anthology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetic Species: A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Audiobooks Narrated
The Essential T.S. Eliot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummer Snow: New Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5