Robert Hass Books
The essential haiku
By Hass
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...
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Twentieth century pleasures
By Robert Hass
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentieth century poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowell, James Wright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters, Robert Creeley, Ja...
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