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About This Book
The poems in Robert Hass's new collectionâhis first to appear in a decadeâare 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 hereâSan Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high countryâin 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 Czeslaw Milosz, the great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, Horace, Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, and Lucretius. We are offered glimpses of a surprisÂingly 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 everyÂthing 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- IOWA, JANUARY
- AFTER TRAKL
- ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLEâS POEMS
- A SUPPLE WREATH OF MYRTLE
- FUTURES IN LILACS
- THREE DAWN SONGS IN SUMMER
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF HAPPINESS
- ETYMOLOGY
- THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING COLOR
- THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES
- WINGED AND ACID DARK
- A SWARM OF DAWNS, A FLOCK OF RESTLESS NOONS
- BREACH AND ORISON
- THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION
- AFTER THE WINDS
- FOR CZESĆAW MIĆOSZ IN KRAKĂW
- TIME AND MATERIALS
- ART AND LIFE
- DOMESTIC INTERIORS
- TWIN DOLPHINS
- THEN TIME
- THAT MUSIC
- CZESĆAW MIĆOSZ: IN MEMORIAM
- HORACE: THREE IMITATIONS
- TOMAS TRANSTRĂMER: SONG
- STATE OF THE PLANET
- POEM WITH A CUCUMBER IN IT
- DRIFT AND VAPOR (SURF FAINTLY)
- ââŠWHITE OF FORGETFULNESS, WHITE OF SAFETYâ
- AFTER GOETHE
- I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DMITRI
- A POEM
- BUSHâS WAR
- PEARS
- THE DRY MOUNTAIN AIR
- FIRST THINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE
- POETâS WORK
- MOUTH SLIGHTLY OPEN
- OLD MOVIE WITH THE SOUND TURNED OFF
- EZRA POUNDâS PROPOSITION
- ON VISITING THE DMZ AT PANMUNJOM: A HAIBUN
- CONSCIOUSNESS
- EXIT, PURSUED BY A SIERRA MEADOW
- SEPTEMBER, INVERNESS
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- About the Author
- ALSO BY ROBERT HASS
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher