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Author: HASS, ROBERT Matches Found: 130 Hass, Robert Poet's Biography 130 poems available by this author A STORY ABOUT THE BODY Poem Text First Line: The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony Subject(s): Men ADHESIVE: FOR EARLENE First Line: How often we overslept %those grey enormous mornings Last Line: To have the price of les enfants de paradis AFTER I SEIZED THE PENTAGON First Line: Washington was calm, murderous, neo-classical Last Line: Where spring is clement and the land an aftermath AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Text Last Line: In the saucepan Subject(s): Nature; Youth; Aging AGAINST BOTTICELLI (1) First Line: In the life we lead together every paradise is lost Last Line: We will look at each other steadily %and butcher them and skin them AGAINST BOTTICELLI (2) First Line: The myth they chose was the constant lovers Last Line: The one with sad eyes who represents pleasure, %had a canvas to herself, entirely to herself APPLE TREES AT OLEMA First Line: They were walking in the woods along the coast Last Line: Gravely and delicately, as if it were the key, %and then he wanders among strangers all he wants BARN First Line: I followed my breath each dawn to work the barn Last Line: And pray each night the damn thing will not burn BERKELEY ECLOGUE First Line: Sunlight on the streets in afternoon Last Line: It didn't cost me anything. %anything? BETWEEN THE WARS Poem Text First Line: When I ran, it rained. Late in the afternoon Last Line: Starved children begging chocolate on the tracks Subject(s): Youth; War BETWEEN THE WARS First Line: When I ran, it rained. Late in the afternoon Last Line: Starved children begging chocolate on the tracks BLACK MOUNTAIN, LOS ALTOS First Line: Clumps of ghostly buckeye BOOKBUYING IN THE TENDERLOIN First Line: A statuary christ bleeds sweating grief Last Line: This riding out the dying of the west BOSTON MARKET First Line: Beneath cool shade of tamaracks Last Line: Because, by god, I've got to get my price CALM Poem Text First Line: September sun, a little fog in the mornings. No sanctified terror Subject(s): Calm; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility CALM First Line: September sun, a little fog in the mornings. No sanctified terror Last Line: Carved by a muskrat in the blue-gray distance of the pond, black-eyed susans every- %where. You can Subject(s): Calm CHILD NAMING FLOWERS First Line: When old crones wandered in the woods Last Line: And so cold %I could hardly move CHURCHYARD First Line: Somerset maugham said a professional was someone who could do his %best work CONSCIOUSNESS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: First image is blue sky, nothing in it, and not understood as sky, a field of blue Last Line: "loves itself,"" george oppen wrote. My poor father" Subject(s): Consciousness CONVERSION First Line: Walking down the stairs this morning in the bitter cold, in the old house's CUTTINGS First Line: You count up everything you have DRAGONFLIES MATING First Line: The people who lived here before us Last Line: Into the receiver body. They can't separate probably until it is done DUCK BLIND First Line: He was a judge in louisiana-this is a story told by his daughter ENGLISH: AN ODE First Line: De quien son las piedras del rio Last Line: They hold the hope of morning ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS Recitation by Author First Line: In one version of the legend the sirens couldn't sing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey EZRA POUND'S PROPOSITION Poem Text First Line: Beauty is sexual, and sexuality Last Line: Across her cheekbones and her lovely skin Subject(s): Economics FAINT MUSIC Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAINT MUSIC First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing FEAST First Line: The lovers loitered on the deck talking Last Line: Crying. She didn't know what she wanted Subject(s): Food And Eating; Grief FIRST THINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The white water rush of some warbler’s song Last Line: With you, will have their way Subject(s): Dreams FORTY SOMETHING First Line: She says to him, musing, 'if you ever leave me Last Line: Down into his eyes. 'you understand? Your heart FRIDA KAHLO: IN THE SALIVA First Line: In the saliva %in the paper Last Line: In his mouth - diego - in his lies GARDENS OF WARSAW First Line: The rain loves the afternoon and the tall lime trees Last Line: At the embassies. Even the murderers are on vacation GRAVEYARD AT BOLINAS First Line: Yews as tall as pines HAPPINESS First Line: Because yesterday morning from the steamy window Last Line: Our eyes squinched up like bats HARBOR AT SEATTLE First Line: They used to meet one night a week at a place on top of telegraph hill HAVE YOU HEARD OF MADAM LUPESCU HEROIC SIMILE First Line: When the swordsman fell in kurosawa's seven samurai Last Line: There are limits to imagination HEROIC SMILE Poem Text First Line: When the swordsman fell in kurosawa's seven samurai Last Line: There are limits to imagination Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema HUMAN WISHES First Line: This morning the sun rose over the garden wall and a rare blue sky Last Line: The horses at newmarket. He might parley it into a fortune HUMPBACK First Line: This time it's days before the mountain of the flesh Last Line: And will not leave I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI Recitation by Author Subject(s): Immigrants; War; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMAGE First Line: The child brought blue clay from the creek Last Line: Where the deer sometimes showed themselves at sundown IMPROMPTU POEM Recitation by Author IN THE BAHAMAS First Line: The doctor looked at her stitches thoughtfully Last Line: Now there is a truly appalling place' INTERRUPTED MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside Last Line: Someone gave the name, sometime, of pearly everlasting Subject(s): Disappointment; Nature; Life INTERRUPTED MEDITATION First Line: Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside Last Line: Someone gave the name, sometime, of pearly everlasting IOWA CITY: EARLY APRIL First Line: This morning a cat - bright orange - pawing at the one patch of Last Line: And the crows' calls, even before you open your eyes, at sunup JANUARY First Line: Three clear days JATUN SACHA First Line: First she was singing. Then it was a gold thing, her singing Last Line: Birth cries, and a gold thing, ringing LATE SPRING First Line: And then in mid-may the first morning of steady heat LAYOVER First Line: Thin snow falling on the runway at anchorage Last Line: The stale air, breathed and breathed, we have been sharing LETTER TO A POET First Line: A mockingbird leans Last Line: This world did not invite us LULLABY FOR THE MATHEMATICIAN First Line: Come, your mircles of math have gone to sleep Last Line: And into arms that make all metaphor MAPS First Line: Sourdough french bread and pinot chardonnay Last Line: Is a skunk %he shuns the day MEASURE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Recurrences. / coppery light hesitates Last Line: That forms these lines Subject(s): Trees MEASURE First Line: Recurrences Last Line: That forms these lines MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS Poem Text First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing; Words; Vocabulary MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Last Line: Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, %saying blacberry, blackberry, blackbrry Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing MISERY AND SPLENDOR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Summoned by conscious recollection, she Last Line: To which they can’t admit they can never be admitted Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MISERY AND SPLENDOR First Line: Summoned by conscious recollection, she Last Line: To which they can't admit they can never be admitted MONARCHS First Line: The world this morning is not miraculous Last Line: Or simply by our notion that desire %outlives the body in its flight MUSEUM First Line: On the morning of the kathe kollowitz, a young man and woman MY MOTHER'S NIPPLES First Line: They're where all displacement begins Last Line: I remembered that she only ever spoke happily %of high school NATURAL THEOLOGY First Line: White daisies against the burnt orange of the windowframe NOTE ON IOWA CITY: EARLY APRIL First Line: The raccoon stared down from the crotch of a tree Last Line: And there was nothing there NOVELLA First Line: A woman who, as a thirteen-year-old girl, develops a friendship OLD DOMINION Poem Text Recitation First Line: The shadows of late afternoon and the odors Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Hope; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Tennis; Optimism OLD DOMINION First Line: The shadows of late afternoon and the odors Last Line: Whites who look so graceful from this distance Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Hope; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Tennis ON SQUAW PEAK First Line: I don't even know which sadness ON THE COAST NEAR SAUSALITO Poem Text First Line: I won't say much for the sea Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE COAST NEAR SAUSALITO First Line: I won't say much for the sea Last Line: We stared down centuries Subject(s): Seashore ORIGIN OF CITIES First Line: She is first seen dancing which is a figure Last Line: The craftsmen work in bronze and gold, accounts %are kept carefully, what goes out, what returns OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS First Line: In white, %the unpainted statue of the young girl Last Line: And the days churned by, %navigable sorrow PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (1) First Line: She dreamed along the beaches of this coast Last Line: The striped shadows of the cattails %twitch like nerves PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (10) First Line: Here everything seems clear Last Line: They say she died in redwood city, %cursing 'the goddamned anglo-yankee yoke.' PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (11) First Line: The otters are gone from the bay Last Line: It is morning. Citizens are rising %to murder in their moral dreams PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (2) First Line: Mud, roots, old cartridgs, and blood Last Line: High overhead, the long silence of the gese PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (3) First Line: We take no prisoners,' john fremont said Last Line: And terns rise like seafoam %from the breaking surf PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (4) First Line: Kit carson's antique .45, blue Last Line: Ramon de haro, jose de los reyes berryessa %runs darkly to the old ooze PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (5) First Line: The star thistles: erect, surprised PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (6) First Line: And blooming %violet caterpillar hairs. One Last Line: The books don't say which. %they were twins PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (7) First Line: In california in the early spring Last Line: Like autumn, clarifies %like pain PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (8) First Line: Well I have dreamed this coast myself Last Line: Where the dead bass surface %and their flacid bellies bob PALO ALTO: THE MARSHES (9) First Line: A chill tightens the skin Last Line: And still they saw the black smoke %smear the sky above the pines PASCHAL LAMB First Line: Well, david had said-it was snowing outside and his voice contained PICKING BLACKBERRIES WITH A FRIEND .. READING JACQUES LACAN Poem Text First Line: August dust is here. Drought Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PICKING BLACKBERRIES WITH A FRIEND .. READING JACQUES LACAN First Line: August dust is here. Drought Last Line: Goes to get a bigger pot Subject(s): Language PORNOGRAPHER First Line: He has finished a day's work Last Line: In what is sometimes morning warmth %sometimes evening chill PRIVILEGE OF BEING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Many are making love. Up above, the angels Last Line: And to the immense, illiterate, consoling angels Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life PRIVILEGE OF BEING First Line: Many are making love. Up above, the angels Last Line: And to the immense, illiterate, consoling angels QUARTET First Line: The two couples having dinner on saturday night-it is late fall REGALIA FOR A BLACK HAT DANCER First Line: In the morning, after running along the river Last Line: If you were supposed to eat the bones. You were. I did RETURN OF ROBINSON JEFFERS First Line: He shuddered briefly and stared down the long valley Last Line: Beyond the leached ashes of dead fire, %the small jeweled hunger in the seabirds' eye Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) RITE OF SPRING First Line: Our ewe's slung belly swells Last Line: To pucker whiskered lips, %to suckle one pink teat RUSIA EN 1931 Poem Text First Line: The archbishop of san salvador is dead, murdered by no one knows Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) RUSIA EN 1931 First Line: The archbishop of san salvador is dead, murdered by no one knows Last Line: And vallejo: 'think of the unemployed. Think of the forty million %families of the hungry...' Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SAN PEDRO ROAD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Casting, upon a salt creek in the sea-rank air Last Line: Done with casting, reeling in slowly, casting Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SANTA BARBARA ROAD First Line: Mornings on the south side of the house SANTA LUCIA II First Line: Pleasure is so hard to remember SEPTEMBER NOTEBOOK: STORIES Poem Text First Line: Everyone comes here from a long way off Last Line: One of the children said. “I don’t like this story,” said the other SEVENTH NIGHT First Line: It was the seventh night and he walked out to look at stars Last Line: And the white light eveywhere in that silence was white paper SHAME: AN ARIA First Line: You think you've grown up in various ways Last Line: And which, if you could love yourself, you would SHUNGA First Line: I've been thinking about the ordinariness of life Last Line: Teeth clenched, lines tight about the eyes. In the picture %they want this more than anything SONG First Line: Afternoon cooking in the fall sun Last Line: Slices of green pepper %on a bone-white dish SONG FOR A BRIDE First Line: Where scented apple blossoms blow Last Line: And heard her father in the room %scold all that he forbade SONNET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A man talking to his ex-wife on the phone. Last Line: Patient animals, and tangled vines, and rain. Subject(s): Love; Divorce; Nostalgia SONNET First Line: A man talking to his ex-wife on the phone Last Line: Patient animals, and tangled vines, and rain SPRING DRAWING First Line: The man thinks lilacs against white houses, having seen them in the farm SPRING DRAWING: 2 First Line: A man says lilacs against white houses, two sparrows, one streaked SPRING RAIN First Line: Now the rain is falling freshly, in the intervals between sunlight STORY ABOUT THE BODY First Line: The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony Last Line: Swept them from the corners of her studio -- was full of dead bees Subject(s): Men TAHOE IN AUGUST Poem Text First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women TAHOE IN AUGUST First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness Last Line: The mother she looks like stands at the counter snapping beans Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women TALL WINDOWS First Line: All day you didn't cry or cry out and you felt like sleeping Last Line: Diminishings it would be calm and shine THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They are walking in the woods along the coast Last Line: And then he wanders among strangers all he wants Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Apple Trees; Male-female Relations THE FAILURE OF BUFFALO TO LEVITATE Poem Text First Line: Millard fillmore died here Last Line: Are imprisoned in the chandeliers Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York THE FEAST Poem Text First Line: The lovers loitered on the deck talking Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: How like a well-kept garden is your soul Last Line: To the making of bombs Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; 19th Century THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES Poem Text First Line: The aspen glitters in the wind Last Line: The aspen doing something in the wind Subject(s): Trees THE RETURN OF ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text First Line: He shuddered briefly and stared down the long valley Last Line: The small jeweled hunger in the seabird’s eye Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) THEN TIME First Line: In winter, in a small room, a man and a woman Last Line: As creatures seething in a compost heap, then time THIN AIR First Line: What if I did not mention death to get started TIME AND MATERIALS First Line: Layers, as if Last Line: Some wound of color TWO VIEWS OF BUSON Poem Text First Line: A french scholar says he affected the chinese manner Last Line: He saw bubbles of crab-froth among the river reeds Subject(s): Nature; Love UNDER THE INFLUENCE First Line: I heard him sometime close to 3 a.M. Last Line: And stole from me the words I thought my own VINTAGE First Line: They had agreed, walking into the delicatessen of sixth avenue Last Line: That cabernet can't be drunk for another five years WEED WHY I AM AFRAID TO HAVE A SON First Line: Windless snow this afternoon Last Line: I come back to take the blows WOODS IN NEW JERSEY First Line: Where there was only grey, and brownish grey Last Line: The color of the trees, they hardly seem to move |
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