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Laddar... Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 (urspr publ 2007; utgåvan 2008)av Robert Hass
VerksinformationTime and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 av Robert Hass (2007)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Gorgeous and amazing, this was my first poetry book for Robert Hass. I was beyond moved, clipping pictures, telling a friend how they related to piece of my life or present writings, and quoted off. I cannot wait to find more of his! ( ) Hass' poems offer something for every reader of poetry--varying between the lyrical and the immediate simple statement of a friend, between locations, and between abstracts and concrete pieces of culture & nature, the poems here wander from moment to moment with a fluid attention to detail that is both fascinating and worth exploring, and re-exploring. Absolutely, I'd recommend Hass' work to any poetry reader, and to any poet. "It must be a gift of evolution that humans Can't sustain wonder. We'd never have gotten up From our knees if we could." Hass's poetry is my cup of tea. Each poem is like a highly condensed novel; you're either given the exacting detail and your mind left to backfill the plot, or you're given the wide perspective and your imagination can supply the details. It is best read slowly, searching out the special cadence of the individual. "If the horror of the world were the truth of the world, he said, there would be no one to say it and no one to say it to." "A hint of salt, something like starch, something Like an attar of grasses or green leaves On the tongue is the tongue And the cucumber Evolving toward each other." "Because if we can't eat a thing or do something with it, Human beings get bored by almost everything eventually, Perhaps an expert explicator can glean the genius of the Pulitzer winning Time and Materials, but this collection of poems--at least to me--reads like the introspective doodlings of an aging baby boomer. I found myself asking, often, why? Some of the poems were amusing or poignant, but none of them rose above the point of slightly better than ordinary. If these words were written by anyone other than Hass, would they have gotten a Pulitzer? (Probably not.) It's an eclectic mix of old codgerism with a bit of get-off-my-lawn-darn-kids! vibe, preoccupation with sex, name dropping, memories of family, and political poems. (more)
This book contains Hass’s best and most careful verse in almost 30 years. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
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 Czeslaw Milosz, 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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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