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Now and Then : The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000 by Robert Hass is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><p>During his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19th-century tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. “Poet’s Choice” went on to appear as a nationally syndicated column across the country from 1997 to 2000. The column, which featured poems relevant to current headlines, serves as a symbol of the continuing importance of poetry in our daily lives. This collection contains well-known poets such as Wallace Stevens, Rita Dove, John Ashbery, and Robert Frost, as well as emerging and translated poets such as Jaime Sabines and Czeslaw Milosz. Also included are Hass’s essays that accompanied the poems. Encapsulating a world before 9/11, this collection serves as both remembrance and reminder of a period in our history, and as a celebration of the poets whose works transcend time.<p></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>In 1997, former poet laureate Hass inaugurated the now famous Poet's Choice column in the <I>Washington Post Book World</I>, in which he chose a poem and accompanied it with explanation or context. The goal was to make poetry more accessible to the general reader. Now all of Hass's columns are collected chronologic
- Author
- Robert Hass
- Publisher
- Counterpoint Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781582434360
- Subjects
- History, Short Stories, Poetry
- Rating
- 4.14 / 5 (46 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13