Robert Hass: Quick Facts


Facts

Born March 1, 1941 (age 85) • San Francisco • California
Title / Office poet laureate (1995-1997)
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “Field Guide” • “Sun Under Wood” • “The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems” • “Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005”

Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
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Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
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Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
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Philip Levine
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Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
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Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
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William Meredith
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C.K. Williams
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James Merrill
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Charles Simic
Charles Simic
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James Tate
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Anthony Hecht
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Richard Howard
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Mark Strand
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W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
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Rita Dove
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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
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