| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 178 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema. A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass's trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss, the serene and resonant 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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
First Poem -- Nature Notes in the Morning -- Sprezzatura -- Stanzas for a Sierra Morning -- Patches of Snow in July -- Death in Infancy -- Death in Childhood -- Death in Adolescence -- Those Who Die in Their Twenties -- Planh or Dirge for the Ones Who Die in Their Thirties -- Harvest: Those Who Die Early in Their Middle Years -- Second Person -- Three Old Men -- Pablo Neruda: Only Death -- To Be Accompanied by Flute and Zither -- Abbott's Lagoon: October -- Christmas in August -- An Argument About Poetics Imagined at Squaw Valley After a Night Walk Under the Mountain -- Cymbeline -- The Archaeology of Plenty -- Poem Not an Elegy in a Season of Elegies -- The Poet at Nine -- A Person Should -- Smoking in Heaven -- Dream in the Summer of My Seventy-Third Year -- Los Angeles: An Analysis -- Okefenokee: A Story -- For Cecil, After Reading Ohio Railroads -- Jersey Train -- Sunglasses Billboard in Termini Station -- Three Dreams About Buildings -- Pertinent Divagations Toward an Ode to Inuit Carvers -- Three Propositions About a Subject Still to Be Determined -- February Notebook: The Rains -- Summer Storm in the Sierra -- Hotel Room -- Large Bouquet of Summer Flowers, or Allegory of the Imagination -- Nature Notes 2 -- Another Bouquet of Summer Flowers, or Allegory of Mortality -- John Muir, a Dream, a Waterfall, a Mountain Ash -- After Xue Di -- Dancing -- The Creech Notebook -- A Basque Restaurant in Bakersfield -- A Straight Shot to Vegas -- Drones in the Desert -- Jailbird Priests -- Seoul Notebook -- First Day of the Conference on Peace -- Mouths of Babes -- Two Translations from Anglo-Saxon -- The Battle at Brunanburh -- The Death of Alfred; from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- What the Modernists Wrote About: An Informal Survey -- A Talk at Sewanee -- The Four Eternities, or the Grandfather's Tale -- Silence -- The Sixth Sheikh's Sheep's Sick -- Montale's Notebooks -- Small Act of Homage -- Notes on the Notion of a Boundless Poetics. |
| Subject(S) |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Nature poetry.
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Poetry.
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Free verse.
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| ISBN |
9780062950024 (hardcover) |
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