Sun under wood : new poems / by Robert Hass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hass, Robert.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, [1996]

Summary:

Sun Under Wood extends and deepens Hass's ongoing explorations of nature and human history, solitude and the bonds of children, parents, and lovers. Here his passion for apprehending experience with language - for creating experience with language - finds supple form in poems that embrace all that is alive and full of joy. Yet Hass's most seductive and indelible lyrics reside in an exquisitely fragile moment: there is a dark undercurrent rising in this text, an increasingly acute sense of mortality in a world "so full of pain it must sometimes make a kind of singing."

Contents:

Happiness

Our Lady of the Snows

Dragonflies Mating

My Mother's Nipples

The Gardens of Warsaw

Layover

Notes on "Layover"

The Woods in New Jersey

Iowa City: Early April

A Note on "Iowa City: Early April"

Sonnet

Faint Music

Forty Something

Shame: An Aria

Regalia for a Black Hat Dancer

Jatun Sacha

Frida Kahlo: In the Saliva

English: An Ode

The Seventh Night

Interrupted Meditation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 77).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0880014687

OCLC:

34591005