After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
Robert Hass, “After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa” from Field Guide. Copyright © 1973 by Robert Hass. Reprinted with the permission of Yale University Press, http://www.yale.edu/yup/.
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Poet Robert Hass b. 1941
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Subjects Midlife, Living, Love, Youth, Activities, Nature, Relationships, Eating & Drinking, Animals
Holidays New Year
Biography
Robert Hass is one of contemporary poetry’s most celebrated and widely-read voices. In addition to his success as a poet, Hass is also recognized as a leading critic and translator, notably of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese haiku masters Basho, Buson and Issa. Critics celebrate Hass’s own poetry for its clarity of expression, its conciseness, and its imagery, often drawn from everyday life. “Hass has noted his own . . .
Poems by Robert Hass
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SUBJECT Midlife, Living, Love, Youth, Activities, Nature, Relationships, Eating & Drinking, Animals
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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