Robert Hass, Robert Haas

Robert Hass

Robert Hass is the author of three books of poems, Field Guide (1973), Praise (1979), and Human Wishes, which was published by Ecco Press in 1989. He has co-translated several volumes of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, including Unattainable Earth and Provinces, edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer, and contributed to Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets. A book of his essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. His many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. In 1995 he was selected by the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate of the United States. Robert Hass is a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
• "House," by Robert Hass
• introduction to Robert Hass
• I used "introtrac" and searched under "Haas, Robert" (note: Haas) and came up with a whole series of entries referring to the writings of Robert Hass, the poet laureate, including a prose poem called "early April" from TriQuarterly, Winter 1995 n95 p46(3), which begins thus:

  This morning a cat - bright orange - pawing at the one patch of new grass in the sand-and tanbark-colored leaves. And last night the sapphire of the raccoon's eyes in the beam of the flashlight. He was climbing a tree beside the house, trying to get onto the porch, I think, for a wad of oatmeal Simmered in cider from the bottom of the pan we'd left out for the birds.

  And earlier a burnished, somewhat dazed woodchuck, his coat gleaming with spring, Loping toward his burrow in the roots of a tree among the drying winter's litter Of old leaves on the floor of the woods, when I went out to get the New York Times.

  And male cardinals were whistling back and forth - sireeep, sreeep, sreeep - Sets of three sweet full notes, weaving into and out of each other like the triplet rhymes in medieval poetry, And the higher, purer notes of the tufted titmice among them, High in the trees where they were catching what they could of the early sun.

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