  | Book Details Title: Summer Snow: New Poems |
Book DescriptionReview “It all sounds like mastery, like singular virtuosity attained on a very popular instrument — common American speech.” (New York Times Book Review)”Hass personalizes everything, warms everything up. He’s an open book; but he’s also someone whom readers should, in every sense of the phrase, keep their eye on.” (New Yorker) Read more About the Author 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. Read more Customers Review: This is a new collection of poems by Robert Hass since The Apple Trees at Olema which came out 10 years ago and contained new, as well as selected poems from previous works. Fans of Robert Hass will relish in the familiarity of the way he writes his poems and this collection is absolutely wonderful. I think this book would be great for people who are already familiar with Robert Hass but also for people just discovering him.
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