The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”
The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections of this great artist’s work, published far too infrequently, The Apple Trees at Olema is a cause for celebration. |
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Some of Davids Story 29 2222 | 29 |
The Red Chinese Dragon and the Shadows on Her Body | 36 |
On the Coast near Sausalito | 43 |
For Earlene | 50 |
The Marshes | 55 |
Calm | 143 |
Human Wishes | 149 |
Duck Blind | 156 |
In the Bahamas | 159 |
Santa Barbara Road | 173 |
Privilege of Being | 187 |
from SUN UNDER WOOD | 201 |
The Gardens of Warsaw | 219 |
The Nineteenth Century as a Song | 62 |
In Weather | 69 |
from PRAISE | 77 |
Against Botticelli | 83 |
The Pure Ones | 89 |
The Origin of Cities | 95 |
Emblems of a Prior Order | 99 |
A Letter | 109 |
Spring Drawing | 131 |
Late Spring | 137 |
Faint Music | 232 |
Forty Something | 235 |
Jatun Sacha | 249 |
Iowa January | 265 |
Breach and Orison | 278 |
Art and Life | 291 |
Three Imitations | 306 |
Drift and Vapor Surf Faintly | 320 |
Pears | 333 |
Exit Pursued by a Sierra Meadow | 347 |
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