{"product_id":"time-and-materials-poems-1997-2005-9780061350283","title":"Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e wrote, \"to get the whole man, head and heart and hands and every-thing else, into his poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery new volume by Robert Hass is a major event in poetry, and this beautiful collection is no exception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Hass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061350283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/02\/2008 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHass, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Hass \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include \u003cem\u003eThe Apple Trees at Olema\u003c\/em\u003e (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner \u003cem\u003eTime and Materials\u003c\/em\u003e (Ecco, 2008), \u003cem\u003eSun Under Wood\u003c\/em\u003e (Ecco, 1996), \u003cem\u003eHuman Wishes\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), \u003cem\u003ePraise\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), and \u003cem\u003eField Guide\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz 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, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer's \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa\u003c\/em\u003e (1994). His essay collection \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43088259973235,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/time-and-materials-poems-1997-2005-9780061350283","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}