Volume 55, Number 8 · May 15, 2008
A 'Mind in Seven Places'
By Charles Simic
Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005
by Robert Hass
Ecco, 88 pp., $22.95
There are poets who wish to tell us everything about themselves, others who keep their lives a secret; poets who believe poetry is the voice of solitude, others who aspire to speak for their race, gender, and ethnic group; poets who believe they follow what tradition prescribes, others who seek a poetry freed from any definition of poetry or prose; poets who seek God, the sublime, the simultaneous vision of One and Many, while for others there is only the here and now. Then there's Robert Hass, who doesn't quite fit in any of these categories. As his marvelous new book of poems shows, there are still other ways to be an American poet.
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