Best Robert Hass Poems from the 1970's
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A list of his best poems from "Praise" and "Field Guide"
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1.
Meditation at Laguinitas
19 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"All the new thinking is about loss./ In this it resembles all the old thinking... because there is in this world no one thing/ to which the bramble of blackberry corresponds,/ a word is elegy to what it signifies."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
2.
Weed
15 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
3.
The Pornographer at the End of Winter
15 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
4.
Santa Lucia
14 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
5.
Like Three Fair Branches from One Root Deriv'd
13 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Notice/ in this poem the thinning out/ of particulars... Sometimes it is good and sometimes/ it is dangerous like the ignorance/ of particulars, but our words are clear/ and our movements give off light."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
6.
Against Botticelli
13 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"It is difficult the story and the wise never choose it/ because it requires a long performance/ and because there is nothing, by definition, between the acts."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
7.
Sunrise
13 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
8.
Old Dominion
12 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
9.
Heroic Simile
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
10.
Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"beard stained purple/ by the word juice,/ goes to get a bigger pot."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
11.
In Weather
6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
12.
After I Seized the Pentagon
5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
13.
Politics of a Pornographer
5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
14.
The Pure Ones
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
15.
Emblems of a Prior Order
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
16.
Graveyard at Bolinas
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
17.
Fall
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
18.
The Return of Robinson Jeffers
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
19.
Child Naming Flowers
-3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
20.
Concerning the Afterlife the Indians of Central California Had Only the Dimmest Notions
-4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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