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Summer Snow: New Poems – A Major Poetry Collection Exploring Loss, Desire, and Nature from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass
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“What is older than desire?
the bare tree asked.
Sorrow, said the sky.
Sorrow is a river
older than desire.
— Robert Hass, from “February: Question” in “February Notebooks: The Rains,” Summer Snow: New Poems (Ecco, 2020)”
― Summer Snow: New Poems – A Major Poetry Collection Exploring Loss, Desire, and Nature from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass
the bare tree asked.
Sorrow, said the sky.
Sorrow is a river
older than desire.
— Robert Hass, from “February: Question” in “February Notebooks: The Rains,” Summer Snow: New Poems (Ecco, 2020)”
― Summer Snow: New Poems – A Major Poetry Collection Exploring Loss, Desire, and Nature from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass
“You’d think, past sixty or so, the unconscious
would give you some respite. But here, it says,
is the little engine of dread and sorrow that runs your story.
And here, almost symmetrically, is the unspeakable cruelty
of the world.”
― Summer Snow: New Poems – A Major Poetry Collection Exploring Loss, Desire, and Nature from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass
would give you some respite. But here, it says,
is the little engine of dread and sorrow that runs your story.
And here, almost symmetrically, is the unspeakable cruelty
of the world.”
― Summer Snow: New Poems – A Major Poetry Collection Exploring Loss, Desire, and Nature from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass
