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 Transtromer, Horace,
Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, and Lucretius. We are offered glimpses
of a surpris-ingly 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 every-thing 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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