Robert Hass

La poesía de Hass se caracteriza por la claridad de expresión, la precisión en los detalles, la profusión de descripción y por la naturaleza meditativa de un observador colocado en una posición externa. Sus poemas gravitan alrededor de la cuestion de la distancia entre palabra y objeto, no solo como reflexion acerca de la imposibilidad de acercarse a las cosas a traves del lenguaje, sino como un continuo preguntarse acerca de si no sera el mismo hecho de nombrarlas lo que nos separa de ellas. Es en ese espacio de perplejidad que abre la interrogacion constante sobre lo que deseamos y lo que (no) conseguimos donde el poeta situa sus poemas. Entre la palabra y su objeto, pero tambien entre un amante y otro. Ahi, entre lo comico y lo sublime, lo anecdotico y lo metafisico, lo intimo y lo publico, en la alternancia entre el paisaje de lo privado y el paisaje abierto y salvaje de California, es donde Hass encuentra su espacio de reflexion ?es decir, el poema? para mirar atentamente todo lo que le rodea.El sol tras el bosque es sin lugar a dudas su libro mas personal y, probablemente, el mas arriesgado, en tanto que es a la vez el de mas ambicion estructural y el mas descuidado, el mas prosaico y el mas lirico, el mas crudo y el mas musical, el mas pretendidamente literario y el mas intimo.

Hass tiene una capacidad de empatía que trasciende nuestros límites. Al igual que Czeslaw Milosz tiene esa maestría en el tono, ese don asombroso de la inteligencia, para dotar nuestro discurso cotidiano con un subtexto de insospechadas resonancias.Louise Gluck(Premio Nobel de Literatura 2020) Todo en el suena como una obra maestra, como un virtuoso que lograra un sonido unico a traves de un instrumento tan comun: el habla cotidiana de los estadunidenses.New York Times Book Review

During his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19thcentury tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poets Choice" went on to appear as a nationally syndicated column across the country from 1997 to 2000. The column, which featured poems relevant to current headlines, serves as a symbol of the continuing importance of poetry in our daily lives. This collection contains wellknown poets such as Wallace Stevens, Rita Dove, John Ashbery, and Robert Frost, as well as emerging and translated poets such as Jaime Sabines and Czeslaw Milosz. Also included are Hasss essays that accompanied the poems. Encapsulating a world before 9/11, this collection serves as both remembrance and reminder of a period in our history, and as a celebration of the poets whose works transcend time.

No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections of this great artists work, published far too infrequently, The Apple Trees at Olema is a cause for celebration.This collection gathers the luminous, earthbound poetry that has defined his career:Pulitzer Prize-Winning Vision: Experience the work of a former U.S. Poet Laureate with twenty new poems alongside beloved selections from a celebrated, award-winning career. Poems of the Natural World: Journey through the landscapes of the California coast, from the apple trees at Olema to the marshes of Palo Alto, in verse grounded in the stunning beauty of the physical world. Meditations on Love and Memory: Explore the quiet, intimate moments of life through deeply personal and reflective poems about relationships, loss, and the passage of time. Lyrical and Masterful Language: Discover the intelligent, accessible, and musical voice that has made Robert Hass one of the most essential and revered poets of his generation.

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From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form and an essential book on writing craft for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hasss formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about formal poetry. But the more intuitive, creative parts of a poets work and processesthe core of creative writingare more elusive: if the most interesting aspect of form is the shaping power of the essential, expressive gestures inside it, how do we come to a language in which to speak about form as the search for the radiant shapes the wholeness or brokennesswe experience inside powerful works of art? In suggestive, informal notes, Haas thinks through the idea of a poem from its barest building blocksfrom the single poetic line to foundational stanzasto the complex villanelle and sonnet, and beyond them, to the grand forms of elegy and ode through which poets across human cultures have investigated the shapes of grieving and desiring. His approach to poetics singularly employs postmodern perspectives on shape, thought, feeling, content, and movement, calling on Catullus and Allen Ginsberg, Kobayashi Issa and Czesaw Miosz. Begunb as a project for students of poetry and those in poetry MFA programs, A Little Book on Form is anything butHass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experience of human thought and feeling in language.Robert Hass demystifies the architecture of poetry, from the inside out.Organic Form: Trace the evolution of a poem from its foundational unitthe single linethrough couplets, tercets, and quatrains to understand how shape emerges from impulse. Blank Verse: Explore the unrhymed pentameter that shaped centuries of English literature, from Shakespeares plays to the meditative poems of Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens. Free Verse: Understand the innovative potential of verse liberated from meter, with close readings of modern masters from Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams. Literary Criticism: Delve into a careers worth of wisdom from a master poet and essayist, presented in a uniquely accessible and informal notes format.

Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural worldwith accompanying photos throughout.What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureates Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, Time and Materials, as well as his earlier book of essays, the NBCC Award-winner Twentieth Century Pleasures. Haas brilliantly discourses on many of his favorite topicson writers ranging from Jack London to Wallace Stevens to Allen Ginsberg to Cormac McCarthy; on California; and on the art of photography in several memorable piecesin What Light Can Do, a remarkable literary treasure that might best be described as luminous.In this essential collection for readers and writers, Hass demonstrates the essay as an act of attention, turning his remarkable eye to:Poetry Analysis: Close readings of poets from Wallace Stevens and Allen Ginsberg to Cormac McCarthy, exploring how poetry is made and what it does. The Art of Photography: In-depth essays on landscape photographers like Robert Adams, considering how we see and imagine the earth through the cameras lens. Literature and Place: An exploration of Californias literary landscape through the work of regional masters like Jack London, Mary Austin, and Robinson Jeffers. The Essay as a Form: A powerful demonstration of the essay as a search for meaning, moving from literature and war to the quiet epiphanies of the natural world.

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. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hasss trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss, the serene and resonant beauty of nature, and the mutability of desire, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities, expansive intellect, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date.

Tiempo y materiales, edición bilingùe castellano-inglés traducida y prologada por Jaime Priede es su primer libro traducido y editado en España. "Tiempo y materiales, nos presenta –por vez primera en