Robert Hass

Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941, San Francisco) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005

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    There are moments when the body is as numinous
    as words, days that are the good flesh continuing
    Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
    saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
    —Robert Hass (b. 1941)