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Such the poet, Robert Haas has been a real triumph and gift to poetry and poets everywhere. The title piece Time and Materials fires up a dream fro... (show more)
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
The 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.
His 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 na... (show more)
The 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.
His 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.
The works here look at paintings, at Gerhard Richter as well as Vermeer, and pay tribute to his particular literary masters, friend Czesław Miłosz, the great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, Horace, Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, and Lucretius. We are offered glimpses of a surprisingly 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 New York Times Book Review wrote, "to get the whole man, head and heart and hands and everything else, into his poetry."
Every new volume by Robert Hass is a major event in poetry, and this beautiful collection is no exception.
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There doesn't seem to be much depth in his poetry. I found the language pretty boring, and there wasn't a single poem I really got into. Not a poet... (show more)
There doesn't seem to be much depth in his poetry. I found the language pretty boring, and there wasn't a single poem I really got into. Not a poet I would recommend reading. (show less)
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Such the poet, Robert Haas has been a real triumph and gift to poetry and poets everywhere. The title piece Time and Materials fires up a dream from tatters as it carries the collection to memorial in form and story. Telling of flourish, Mr. Hass writes with a serenade creative ranging from world affair to love life. The collection interpreted from the point of view of the title piece is not short of original, in every verse written, and every verse reflecting, etched in time, from materials,... (show more)
Such the poet, Robert Haas has been a real triumph and gift to poetry and poets everywhere. The title piece Time and Materials fires up a dream from tatters as it carries the collection to memorial in form and story. Telling of flourish, Mr. Hass writes with a serenade creative ranging from world affair to love life. The collection interpreted from the point of view of the title piece is not short of original, in every verse written, and every verse reflecting, etched in time, from materials, gestures, and colors.The title piece's despair flows like a sashay, engaging as it is revered. Coloring the piece is the inspiring Gerhard Richter, and his paintings the Abstrakt Bilden. The talented Mr Hass paints his poetry using after images of pain and frustration, vertical in gesture, to render the poem outside of time, and it's horizons, crashing like a wave remembering the shore. Wouldn't heaven have been slim? (show less)
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Emerging from more typical musings of poetry and nature comes the voice of protest and earthly protection.
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