Robert Hass

Robert Hass‘ books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, Time and Materials, Sun Under Wood, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide, which was selected for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. In Summer Snow (Ecco), his first collection of poems since 2010, Robert Hass’ trademark careful attention to the natural world, subtle humor, and the wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display. Addressing subjects including the poignancy of loss, the beauty of nature, and the mutability of desire, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities, expansive intellect, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. The New Yorker noted that “Hass personalizes everything, warms everything up. He’s an open book; but he’s also someone whom readers should, in every sense of the phrase, keep their eye on.”