 | Robert
Hass was
born in San Francisco in 1941. His books of poetry include Sun Under Wood: New
Poems (Ecco Press, 1996); Human Wishes (1989), Praise (1979), and Field Guide
(1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series.
He has also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz, most
recently Facing the River (1995), and is author or editor of several other collections
of essays and translation, including The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson,
and Issa (1994), and Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984). He served
as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and is currently a Chancellor
of The Academy of American Poets. He lives in California and teaches at the University
of California, Berkeley. -
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