The Apple Trees At Olema
by Robert Hass
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This book includes work from the author's first five books--Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials--as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling, a suite of summer lyrics, and two experiments in pure narrative that meditate on personal relations in a violent world and read like small, luminous novellas.--From publisher description.Tags
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Awesome poetry by the former Poet Laureate and local resident. They resonate with me often...
The self is probably an illusion
and language is the structure of illusions.
The self is beguiled, anyway,
by this engine of thought.
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The self shuffles cards
with absurd dexterity.
The deck includes
an infinite number
of one-eyed jacks.
and language is the structure of illusions.
The self is beguiled, anyway,
by this engine of thought.
*
The self shuffles cards
with absurd dexterity.
The deck includes
an infinite number
of one-eyed jacks.
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Born in San Francisco, Calif., Robert Hass received his undergraduate degree from St. Mary's College and his masters and Ph.D. from Stanford University. After graduating, Hass wrote his first collection of poetry, Field Guide, which went on to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1973. Hass's second collection, Praise, won the Williams show more Carlos Williams Award in 1979. Selected by the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1995-96, Hass has taught writing at the University of California at Berkeley since 1989. Hass has co-translated several volumes of poetry by Nobel Laureate and fellow colleague Czeslaw Milosz and is the editor of The Essential Haiku. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Apple Trees At Olema
- Original publication date
- 2010-03-15
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- Dutch, English
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