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ISBN-10: 0300246331
ISBN-13: 9780300246339
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 10/22/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 0.30" H

Field Guide

Foreword by: Stanley Kunitz

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Price: $20.00

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The first collection of poems by Robert Hass, one of contemporary American poetry’s most celebrated and widely read voices, and the 68th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

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, present 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.

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Included in the Notable Books List for 1973 from the American Library Association


"Usually the first book of a poet is just a groping for his identity and means of expression. Robert Hass should consider himself lucky, for his first volume set the tome and basic subjects of his consequent oeuvre. In Field Guide he is already what he was to become: a major poet endowed with an infallible ear for a line of verse, a master of sensuous and realistic images of California and our mores in this century."–Czeslaw Milosz

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ISBN-10: 0300246331
ISBN-13: 9780300246339
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 10/22/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 0.30" H
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