Robert Hass: 5 books
A Little Book on Form
An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass.
Robert Hass—former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and...
Time and Materials
Poems 1997-2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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...
The Poetic Species
A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Provides a manifesto for activists in education and conservation—as Wilson and Hass explain how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can rouse the conservationist in all of us, the conversation becomes a powerful treatise on the necessity of achieving consilience...
The Apple Trees at Olema
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”
—Atlantic Monthly
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The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008...
What Light Can Do
Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world—with accompanying photos throughout.
What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book...