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Gritty and tender, lyrical and raw, Robert Hazels poetry illuminates the mystical in the commonplace, the sacred body in the exploited flesh, the human voice nearly lost in the racket of our machines. His vision of Americas life never flinches, it never loses faith, and it stays true to this day. Robert Hazel has written poems that stand, not only apart, but high and alone. Wendell Berry I consider Robert Hazel to be one of the most important Southern poets writing today without parallel for evocation of life and passion The honesty, breadth and depth of his insights amount to a sense of a total comprehension of the times. David IgnatowRobert Hazel has a mind that could perhaps be described as rude. Instead of polishing the shoes of the American dream or shrieking at it, Hazel is rude to it. He dislikes the usual clean-shaven version of American history. Hazel is something independenta voice strong and unpleasant. Robert BlyThere is no poet of his generation to whom more has been given. Allen TateHart Crane pouring back into the language, and behind him Walt Whitman, the main current flowing, but gracefully; the natural, special, endlessly ambitious American poetics; the true in

Author

Hazel, Robert

Publisher

Countryman Press; Backcountry Pubns

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780914378563

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities