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WSJ Interviews Poet Robert Hass
15 December 2007, the poet @ 8:54 pm

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran an interview with Robert Hass. He says a lot of great things about a lot of great poets. The range is marvelous:

• Czeslaw Milosz
• Walt Whitman
• Emily Dickinson
• Charles Bukowski
• Bob Dylan
• Robert Frost
• Ross MacDonald
• Allen Ginsberg
• T.S. Eliot
• Denise Levertov
• Gary Snyder

That’s a wonderful chorus of poetic voices. He even manages to slip in a reference to Lola Montez. Robert Hass is a poet who understands American poetics. It makes me wonder if our beloved president knows any of these names and which ones he’d butcher if he tried to pronounce them.

2 Comments a “WSJ Interviews Poet Robert Hass”

1. deborah — December 18, 2007 @ 9:07 pm
   

   Allen, Thank you for mentioning this. I’d not heard about the article yet, and I like Hass.

2. the poet — December 20, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
   

   Thanks Deborah. Glad you liked it.

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