metaxy99
05-31-2005, 10:33 PM
Anyone else crazy for Robert Hass?
What's your favorite Hass poem/book of poems?
I would say 'Meditation at Lagunitas' ('such tenderness those afternoons and evenings,/ saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry')
http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/87_88/hass1.html
or 'Songs to Survive the Summer,' both in Praise.
There's so much more to love. How about the lines leading to the ending, clearly demonstrating his lineage from Milosz, of 'Spring Drawing 2' from Human Wishes:
Suppose, before they said silver or moonlight or wet grass, each poet
had to agree to be responsible for the innocence of all the suffering on
earth,
because they learned in arithmetic, during the long school days, that if
there was anything left over, you had to carry it...
What's your favorite Hass poem/book of poems?
I would say 'Meditation at Lagunitas' ('such tenderness those afternoons and evenings,/ saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry')
http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/87_88/hass1.html
or 'Songs to Survive the Summer,' both in Praise.
There's so much more to love. How about the lines leading to the ending, clearly demonstrating his lineage from Milosz, of 'Spring Drawing 2' from Human Wishes:
Suppose, before they said silver or moonlight or wet grass, each poet
had to agree to be responsible for the innocence of all the suffering on
earth,
because they learned in arithmetic, during the long school days, that if
there was anything left over, you had to carry it...