ROBERT HASS
Robert Hass is the author of three books of poems, Field Guide (1973), Praise (1979),
and Human Wishes, which was published by the Ecco Press in 1989. He has co-translated
several volumes of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, including Unattainable Earth and
Provinces, and contributed to Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty
Contemporary Poets. He has edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Thomas
Tranströmer, as well as The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashö, Busan, and Issa.
A book of his essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures, received the National Book
Critics Circle Award in 1984. His many honors include a John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Fellowship. In 1995 he was selected by the Library of Congress as Poet
Laureate of the United States. Robert Haas is a professor of English at the
University of California, Berkeley. His latest book of poetry is Sun Under Wood,
and his most recent book is Poet's Choice: Poems for Everyday Life.
Robert Hass is the author of three books of poems, Field Guide (1973), Praise (1979),
and Human Wishes, which was published by the Ecco Press in 1989. He has co-translated
several volumes of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, including Unattainable Earth and
Provinces, and contributed to Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty
Contemporary Poets. He has edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Thomas
Tranströmer, as well as The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashö, Busan, and Issa.
A book of his essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures, received the National Book
Critics Circle Award in 1984. His many honors include a John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Fellowship. In 1995 he was selected by the Library of Congress as Poet
Laureate of the United States. Robert Haas is a professor of English at the
University of California, Berkeley. His latest book of poetry is Sun Under Wood,
and his most recent book is Poet's Choice: Poems for Everyday Life.