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An Evening with Poet Robert Hass

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Robert Hass
Monday, December 3, 2007
01:30:00
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Episode Summary

Known also as an essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment, the former United States Poet Laureate (1995-1997) is a poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force. About Hass's work, poet Stanley Kunitz wrote, \"Reading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean when the temperature of the water is not much different from that of the air. You scarcely know, until you feel the undertow tug at you, that you have entered into another element.\"


Participant(s) Bio
In his tenure as United States Poet Laureate, Robert Hass organized conferences such as "Watershed," which brought together noted novelists, poets, and storytellers to talk about writing, nature, and community. He has published many books of poetry including Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, and Sun Under Wood, and a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. His most recent books are Now & Then, a collection of his Washington Post articles and a collection of poems entitled Time and Materials. Haas has translated many of the works of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz. Hass was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship and twice the National Book Critics' Circle Award. He is a professor of English at UC Berkeley.

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ALOUD audio is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and made possible through support provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Righteous Persons Foundation, City National Bank, K&L Gates, KPMG, Sue and David Rosenblum, Wallis Foundation, Donna and Martin J. Wolff and The Boudjakdji Foundation. Additional support provided by The Council of the Library Foundation, Library Foundation members, and the Los Angeles Public Library. Media support provided by KPPC 83.9 FM and KUSC 91.5 FM. ALOUD theme composed by Larry Karush.
 

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