Robert Hass

A Third Commonness

Essays on Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land. In Third Commonness, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography, from Zen Buddhist poetry to California Ecopoetry, from Walt Whitman to T.S. Eliot, and even through an unlikely fellowship between Kentucky poet-priests. Told through various essays and lectures, Third Commonness is as much a book of literary criticism as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage. Hass weaves these histories together with the boundless hand of a writer inseparable from modern American literature. "Here it is, this stretch of it," he says. Sometimes there is a requiem, other times—a romance or a political reckoning. Always we return to poetry, which encounters itself over and over again, beckoned into being by some “propelling force.”

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781556597282
• ISBN-10: 1556597282
• Artikelnr.: 74970817

Autorenporträt

Robert Hass—poet, critic, and teacher—is one of the most renowned figures of modern American literature, serving as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995-1997. In 2007, he was awarded the National Book Award and shared the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection, Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. Hass is also the author of Field Guide (1972), Praise (1979), Twentieth Century Pleasures (1984), and A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry (2018), among other works. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Saint Mary’s College of California, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics until his retirement in 2019.