Field Guide (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
by Robert Hass
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Read in January, 2000
This book probably saved my life a couple of times when I badly needed to step out of myself and experience someone else's life in extreme and vivid particular... something I think is more possible with poetry than other mediums. The poems are about him and his wife going to the movies, shopping for used books, and hoping they don't die after eating mushrooms they picked in the wild as well as other poets, history, nature... but mostly they're a calm, no-bullshit assurance that we're all in this...more
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Read in January, 2008
I really enjoyed most of the poems in this collection. There is a strange mix of natural imagery juxtaposed with social/political commentary. It shifts among beauty, eroticism and the disturbing, perhaps being so close to the natural world, even the title “Field Guide” presents the idea that it is a reference for the wild, we see that people aren’t so removed from our animal counterparts. Maybe the trouble lies in ignoring that on some level we are made up of animal instincts, it’s an...more
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This is my favorite Robert Hass book. It's beautiful and Robert Hass doesn't take himself too seriously. If having a wonderful, Indian summer day in Berkeley were a book, it would be this one.
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this is an incredible book of poetry. wow. that's all i have to say.
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