Robert Hass

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Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941 in San Francisco ) is an American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2008, which he received for his poetry collection " Time and Materials " . From 1995 to 1997 he held the title of " Poet Laureate " of the United States of America .

Life

Robert Hass was in San Francisco in the state of California was born, which is also reflected in his work. In terms of subject matter and attitude, his poems are considered to be strongly related to the life and culture of the American west coast. Hass grew up with an alcoholic mother, and his older brother encouraged him to write. The alcoholism of his mother made hatred especially in his 1996 poetry book " Sun Under Wood " on the subject. He received his high school degree from Marin Catholic High School in 1958.

He is a professor at the University of California and is married to the poet and antiwar activist Brenda Hillman .

In 1984 he was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2005 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

reception

Andreas Dorschel calls Hass a “lyric virtuoso who even makes verses out of recipes”.

Robert Hass was a poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and is a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2008 . In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Prize by the Academy of American Poets for his oeuvre.

Works

  • Field Guide , Robert Hass, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973, ISBN 0-300-01650-6
  • Praise , Robert Hass, New York: Ecco Press, 1979, ISBN 0-912946-61-X
  • Human Wishes , Robert Hass, New York: Ecco Press, 1989, ISBN 0-88001-211-0
  • Sun Under Wood: New Poems , Robert Hass, Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1996, ISBN 0-88001-468-7
  • Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 , Robert Hass, Ecco Press, 2007, ISBN 0-06-134960-7
  • Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000 , Robe

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Dorschel , 'Between Wine and Desert', in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 260 (November 11, 2005), p. 16.
  3. ↑ 98. Prize for Robert Hass. Poetry Newspaper, August 29, 2014, accessed August 29, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hate, robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haas, Robert L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco