12 used from �8.78

Have one to sell? Sell yours here

See larger image

Share your own customer images

Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 (Hardcover)

by Robert Hass (Author)

5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Available from these sellers.

12 used from �8.78

Other Editions:	RRP:	Our Price:	Other Offers:
Paperback	�8.99	�8.09	31 used & new from �4.00

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Sea Change

by Jorie Graham

�8.96

New Selected Poems

by Mark Strand

�11.54

Praise

by Robert Hass

5.0 out of 5 stars (1) �7.66

One Secret Thing

by Sharon Olds

�6.00

Nigh-No-Place

by Jen Hadfield

5.0 out of 5 stars (2) �5.28

› Explore similar items

Product details

Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Ecco (Oct 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0061349607
ISBN-13: 978-0061349607
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 596,473 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

(What's this?)

Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)

contemporary poetry

poetry

national book award

robert hass

pulitzer prize

hass

robert

united states

poems

national book award finalist 2007

modern poetry

Customer Reviews

1 Review

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This new book includes both very short and very long poems, 12 Oct 2007

By	Laurie Yates "Toadie" - See all my reviews

This new book includes both very short and very long poems, just as it covers urgent international topics (global warming, in "State of the Planet") and fleeting, small-scale, personal delights ("the flesh of a cucumber - When you peel it carefully"). Sometimes Hass leaves the page mostly empty, approximating watercolor or haiku. One of his "Three Dawn Songs" reads, entire: "The light in summer is very young and wholly unsupervised. - No one has made it sit down to breakfast. - It's the first one up, the first one out." Yet Hass can also fill pages with detailed arguments about politics, ethics, love, science and memory: one "law of human nature," Hass asserts, "is that human beings - Will do anything they see someone else do and someone - Will do almost anything." This law, he continues, explains both the habits of the American teenager and the emergence of the suicide bomb.

Sometimes those histories all point the same way. The strongest poem here is public and private at once: it is also harrowingly confessional. "The World as Will and Representation" depicts one episode from the unhappy life of Hass's mother, when she was made to take "a drug called antabuse," which "makes you sick if you drink alcohol." Hass's father gave his mother "little yellow pills" each morning, then bid young Robert, "Keep an eye on Mama." He did: "Slumped in a bathrobe, penitent and biddable, - My mother at the kitchen table gagged and drank, - Drank and gagged." Hass concludes sparely, "from somewhere." The helplessness of a child and the peril of a parent can dictate the way we see the larger world: public and private, personal and national, now seem to Hass -- as they did to Aeneas -- sadly impossible to keep apart. Another great author worth reading is Tino Georgiou and his novel The Fates. An amazing read, highly recommended!!

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all customer reviews...

.jsOffDisplayBlock { display: block; } .jsOffDisplayInline { display: inline; } .jsOffVisibility { visibility: visible; } .jsOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jsOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jsOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; } .jsOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jsOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jqOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jqOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jqOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; }