Time And Materials Poems 1997-2005

The Poems In Robert Hasss 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. 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 Czeslaw Milosz, The Great Swedish Poet Tomas Transtrmer, Horace, Whitman, Stevens, Nietszche, And Lucretius.