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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
Robert Hass
Ecco
October 2007
On Sale: October 8, 2007
96 pages
ISBN: 0061349607
EAN: 9780061349607
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Fiction Poetry
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to
appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of
the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present
moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly
immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.
His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the
Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in
addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the
natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of
history; the power and limits of language; and, as in his
other books, domestic life and the conversation between men
and women. New themes emerge as well, perhaps: the essence
of memory and of time. The works here look at
paintings, at Gerhard Richter as well as Vermeer, and pay
tribute to his particular literary masters, friend Czesław
Miłosz, the great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, Horace,
Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, and Lucretius. We are offered
glimpses of a surprisingly green and vibrant
twenty-first-century Berlin; of the demilitarized zone
between the Koreas; of a Bangkok night, a Mexican desert,
and an early summer morning in Paris, all brought into a
vivid present and with a passionate meditation on what it is
and has been to be alive. "It has always been Mr. Hass's
aim," the New York Times Book Review wrote, "to get
the whole man, head and heart and hands and everything
else, into his poetry." Every new volume by Robert
Hass is a major event in poetry, and this beautiful
collection is no exception.
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