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Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. [2] He won the 2007 National Book Award [3] and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize [4] for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. [5]
Robert Hass is one of the most celebrated and widely-read contemporary American poets. In addition to his success as a poet, Hass is also recognized as a leading critic and translator, notably of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese haiku masters Basho, Buson, and Issa.
Robert Hass, who won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for his collection Time and Materials, served as poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007.
Robert Hass (born March 1, 1941, San Francisco, California, U.S.) is an American poet and translator whose body of work and tenure as poet laureate of the United States (1995–97) revealed his deep conviction that poetry, as one critic put it, “is what defines the self.”.
Jan 13, 2020 · The American poet Robert Hass’s new book, his first since 2010, is “Summer Snow.” Hass’s work is a fifty-year standoff between concentration and dispersal: part haiku, part road trip.
Jan 7, 2020 · In his new collection, “Summer Snow,” Hass uses his digressive style to shape wise poems of celebration, mourning and deep empathy.
Apr 29, 2010 · Robert Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, explores one of Walt Whitman's most iconic poems, Song of Myself — and shares his opinion about why the...
Robert Hass (b. 1941) is a native of California, specifically San Francisco, and the twin influences of the city’s cultural life and the lush landscape around it are both evident in his work. It was Hass’s teenage experience of the burgeoning Bay Area poetry scene that helped define his literary ambitions, as Hass himself explained in a ...
Robert Hass is, first of all, a poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force, whose work is rooted in the landscapes of his native Northern California. Widely read and much honored, he has brought the kind of energy in his poetry to his work as an essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment.
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco, California in 1941. He is the author of nine poetry collections, including Field Guide (1973), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize; Praise (1979), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Sun Under Wood (1996), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Time and Materials: Poems ...
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