Robert Hass is the author of Summer Snow: New Poems, forthcoming from Ecco Press. He teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley.
New Voices
Summer 2001
Losing Mr. Daylater: A Note on Beth Ann Fennelly
Early on in Beth Ann Fennelly’s rowdy and stimulating “From L’Hôtel Terminus Notebooks,” the inner critic who appears in the poem as Mr. Daylater, a distant relative of the mocker […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
Santa Lucia
I Art & Love: he camps outside my door, innocent, carnivorous. As if desire were actually a flute, as if the little song transcend, transcend could get you anywhere. He […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
To a Reader
I’ve watched memory wound you. I felt nothing but envy. Having slept in wet meadows, I was not through desiring. Imagine January and the beach, a bleached sky, gulls. And […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
Not Going to New York: A Letter
Dear Dan— This is a letter of apology, unrhymed. Rhyme belongs to the dazzling couplets of arrival. Survival is the art around here. It rhymes by accident with the rhythm […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan
August is dust here. Drought stuns the road, but juice gathers in the berries. We pick them in the hot slow-motion of midmorning. Charlie is exclaiming: for him it is […]
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
To Robert Lowell
From the Polish. I had no right to talk of you that way, Robert. An émigré's envy Must have prompted me to mock Your long depressions, weeks of terror, […]
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
Prescription
From the Polish. Everything but confessions. My own life Annoys me so, I would find relief In telling about it. And I would be understood By those wretches—how many!—who wobble […]