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Biography of Robert Hass
4,672 words, approx. 16 pages
 From an early age Robert Hass embraced poetry as a vocation. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay area at a time when the poetry community there was the focus of national attention. In a Publishers Weekly interview (28 October 1996) Hass explained to...
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Biography of Robert Hass
4,276 words, approx. 14 pages
 Though he has translated the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz and written a critical book (Twentieth Century Pleasures) that received the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, it is for his own musical, descriptive,...


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Robert Hass Information
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 Robert L. Hass (b. March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997....




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 The Washington Post
Robert Hass, former poet laur ...
10/07/2007: 537 words, approx. 2 pages Robert Hass, former poet laureate and the first person to write the Poet's Choice column, has published his first book in 10 years. Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 contains a number of brooding, inventive poems that unfold over several pages. Deft variations of approach...
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 Publishers Weekly
Robert Hass: bard on the national stage.(Poet Laureate of the U.S.)
10/28/1996: 2,146 words, approx. 7 pages Hass was inspired by the beat poets of his native San Francisco in the 1950s, and won the Yale Younger Poets award for his first book, 'Field Guide,' in 1973. He talks about realism vs metaphor in poetry, celebrity poet culture, and the potential...
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Hitchens among book award finalists
10/10/2007: 567 words, approx. 2 pages Should Christopher Hitchens win a National Book Award, you can be sure he won't thank any higher powers.The author, columnist and commentator was nominated for "God Is Not Great," a polemic with a self-evident theme. Hitchens' book received mixed reviews, but became a best seller...
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'Tree of Smoke' wins National Book Award
11/15/2007: 584 words, approx. 2 pages With the United States fighting an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, stories of espionage and critiques of foreign policy were winners at the 58th annual National Book Awards.Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke," a 600-page journey through the physical, moral and spiritual extremes of the Vietnam...



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United States Poet Laureate
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 [In the following excerpt, Matthias, who is a personal acquaintance of Hass's, presents a thorough analysis of Twentieth Century Pleasures.]
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