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Hass, Robert, author.

Time and materials : poems, 1997-2005 / Robert Hass.

First edition.

New York : Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2007]

©2007

88 pages ; 24 cm

A collection of poems by twentieth-century American poet, Robert Hass, that reflect the beauty and energy of the physical world.

Poetry -- Collections.

Poetry -- Collections.

Poetry.

Includes bibliographical references (page 88).

National Book Award, Poetry, 2007

Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, 2008

Iowa, January -- After Trakl -- Envy of other people's poems -- A supple wreath of myrtle -- Futures in lilacs -- Three dawn songs in summer -- The distribution of happiness -- Etymology -- The problem of describing color -- The problem of describing trees -- Winged and acid dark -- A swarm of dawns, a flock of restless noons -- Breach and Orison -- The world as will and representation -- After the winds -- For Czesław Miłosz in Kraków -- Time and materials -- Art and life -- Domestic interiors -- Twin dolphins -- Then time -- That music -- Czesław Miłosz : In memoriam -- Horace : Three imitations -- Tomas Tranströmer : Song -- State of the planet -- Poem with a cucumber in it -- Drift and vapor (surf faintly) -- " ... white of forgetfulness, white of safety" -- After Goethe -- I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri -- A poem -- Bush's war -- Pears -- The dry mountain air -- First things at the last minute -- Poet's work -- Mouth slightly open -- Old movie with the sound turned off -- Ezra Pound's proposition -- On visiting the Dmz at Panmunjom : A Haibun -- Consciousness -- Exit, pursued by a Sierra meadow -- September, Inverness -- Notes.

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