Robert Hass

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March 01, 1941 in The United States

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Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, California, where he teaches at the University of California. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. A MacArthur Fellow and a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he has published poems, literary essays, and translations. He is married to the poet Brenda Hillman.

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Books by Robert Hass

Average rating: 4.28 · 7,949 ratings · 552 reviews · 54 distinct works

	Time and Materials 3.91 avg rating — 729 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Praise 4.35 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sun Under Wood 4.17 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa 4.36 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Human Wishes 4.34 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Field Guide 4.21 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry by Robert Hass, Hass 4.29 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems 4.16 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Poetry 2001 by Robert Hass (Editor), David Lehman (Series Editor) 3.51 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Into The Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage by Robert Hass, Stephen Mitchell 3.51 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:

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April 2010, Robert Hass
"His idiom is spare, he means to say what he knows, as simply as possible, and the simpler the poems the more mysterious they are. For clear water, a scrupulousness of mind, I turn to Oppen." ...More

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Quotes by Robert Hass

“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”
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“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
― Robert Hass

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“Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.”
― Robert Hass

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