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Sun Under Wood
Robert Hass · 1996 · 77 pages
Robert Hass demonstrates once again the unmistakable intelligence and original voice that have won him both literary acclaim and the affection of a broad general readership. Here Hass extends and deepens his 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. Sun Under Wood is the most impressive collection yet from one of our most accomplished poets.
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Ada Limon
“‘I had the idea that the world’s so full of pain/ it must sometimes make a kind of singing,/ and that the sequence helps, as much as order helps–/ first an ego, and then pain, and then the singing.’ That’s from Robert Hass’s poem ‘Faint Music’ in Sun Under Wood. I say it all the time to myself. It seems so true to me. I also think that’s a way of understanding poetry.”↗
