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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 (Hardcover)

by Robert Hass (Author)
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  • 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)

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