Robert Hassauthor profile |
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| born | March 01, 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| website | http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/4281/Robert_Hass/index.aspx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Poetry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
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 Hasscombine editionsavg rating: 4.24 | 952 ratings | 28 distinct works
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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."
— Robert Hass
— Robert Hass











