The Apple Trees At Olema: New And Selected Poems [Paperback]

“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”
—Atlantic Monthly

TheNational Book Award-winning author ofTime and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. WithThe Apple Trees at Olema,theformer Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twentynew 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 Olemais a cause for celebration.

The Apple Trees at Olemaincludes work from Robert Hass's first five books—Field Guide,Praise,Human Wishes,Sun Under Wood, andTime and Materials—as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling, a suite of summer lyrics, and two experiments in pure narrative that meditate on personal relations in a violent world and read like small, luminous novellas.

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