Robert Hass Books

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest works to the increasingly effusive outpourings of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his later poems and culminates in the overwhelmingly personal vision of the famous Duino Elegies' and `The Sonnets to Orpheus', in which his most intense experiences of living and being find their noblest expression.

U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published in1984, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry won theNational Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A new collection of Robert Hass's essays will be published by Ecco in 1998.

This anthology showcases a wide-ranging selection of American poetry that explores themes of nature and the environment. It brings together diverse voices and styles, reflecting the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world. Through various perspectives, the collection highlights the beauty, fragility, and complexity of the environment, making it a vital resource for poetry lovers and environmental enthusiasts alike.

On the Coast near Sausalito -- Fall -- Black Mountain, Los Altos -- Maps -- Adhesive: For Earlene -- Letter to a Poet -- Bookbuying in the Tenderloin -- Spring -- Graveyard at Bolinas -- At Stinson Beach -- San Pedro Road -- Song -- Lines on Last Spring -- Palo Alto: The Marshes -- Concerning the Afterlife, the Indians of Central California Had Only the Dimmest Notions -- The Nineteenth Century as a Song -- For Chekhov -- Two Views of Buson -- After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa -- Basho: A Departure -- The Return of Robinson Jeffers -- Measure -- Applications of the Doctrine -- The Pornographer -- The Pornographer at the End of Winter -- Politics of a Pornographer -- The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate -- House -- After I Seized the Pentagon -- Assassin -- Counterpane: Grandfather's Death -- In Weather -- Letter -- Lament for the Poles of Buffalo.

A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event.

American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with the spirit of Zen Buddhism, the haiku has served as an example of the power of direct observation to the first generation of American modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and also as an example of spontaneity and Zen alertness to the new poets of the 1950s. This definite collection brings together in fresh translations by an American poet the essential poems of the three greatest Matsuo Basho in the seventeenth century; Yosa Buson in the eighteenth century; and Kobayashi Issa in the early nineteenth century. Robert Haas has written a lively and informed introduction, provided brief examples by each poet of their work in the halibun, or poetic prose form, and included informal notes to the poems. This is a useful and inspiring addition to The Essential Poets series.

Každá nová kniha tohto básnika je významnou udalosťou v poézii a ani zbierka Čas a materiály nie je výnimkou. Je zakotvená v kráse a energii fyzického sveta a v rozporuplnosti súčasnej americkej kultúry. Hass získal za ňu Národnú knižnú cenu a Pulitzerovu cenu. V slovenskom knižnom vydaní sa predstavuje tento básnik v preklade Juraja Kuniaka po prvý raz. Doslov napísal Peter Trizna.