Helena's review
Human Wishes (American Poetry Series) by Robert Hass
Helena's review
rating:
bookshelves: essentials
recommended for: anyone from northern california; anyone who, you know, cares about literature & its future
status: Read in October, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: essentials
recommended for: anyone from northern california; anyone who, you know, cares about literature & its future
status: Read in October, 2007
my boyfriend studied with robert haas in grad school. my dad lives in the same neighborhood as robert haas and keeps meeting him at uc berkeley lectures where they end up seated together. when my dad and my boyfriend met, they bonded by unceasingly talking about robert haas as "bob." this sounds slightly obnxious, but this book really, really, really makes you want to call robert haas "bob." It makes you want to sit on a porch in northern california with him and eat mangoes with your hands. It makes you want to tell him all your love life/family troubles and wait for him to nod and say "hmmm" raspy in his throat and then say something wryly humorous that would suddenly make it all right and then explain clear all your stated confusion.
in a recent new yorker article, the author said that haas' seemingly nonsexual poetry is in fact exactly the perfect poetry for one to use to get the kind of women who wouldn't want to be seduced by poe...more
in a recent new yorker article, the author said that haas' seemingly nonsexual poetry is in fact exactly the perfect poetry for one to use to get the kind of women who wouldn't want to be seduced by poe...more
