Poet's Choice

Hass, Robert

ISBN 10: 0880015667 / ISBN 13: 9780880015660

Editore: Ecco, 1998

Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting. Codice articolo EVV.0880015667.VG

Riassunto:

Drawing from his nationally syndicated newspaper column, "Poet's Choice," the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 gathers his favorite selections, including recently published poems as well as classics, on subjects topical and perennial.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Robert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco, 2008), Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996), Human Wishes (1989), Praise (1979), and Field Guide (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Titolo: Poet's Choice
Casa editrice: Ecco
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: very_good