Field Guide, Poems (SIGNED)

Hass, Robert

ISBN 10: 0300016514 / ISBN 13: 9780300016512

Published by Yale University Press, 1973

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Trade paperback in fine condition. Signed by author on title page : "best, Bob Hass". 6th printing. New plastic protective jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 117414

Bibliographic Details

Title: Field Guide, Poems (SIGNED)

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: Sixth Printing.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

The Winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, presents sensations, and the impingements of the past upon the present. Running through the book is a core of love poems, mainly domestic, which muse on the natural order that the affections try to establish even within the wilderness of history and political violence.
Stanley Kunitz, the judge of the competition, calls this year's selection "a big, strong-hearted, earthy book, in the America epic tradition of Whitman and Neruda. Hass is a wonderfully informed young man, a waking history, with abounding affection for the natural universe, including some humans, and with an imagination that spans the whole continent, from Buffalo to the Pacific."