Now and Then
The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000
Published on 1. March 2009
320 pages
978-1-58243-968-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Paul Ebenkamp previously edited the Counterpoint title The Etiquette of Freedom, a conversation with Jim Harrison and Gary Snyder and Song of Myself, a collection of poems from Walt Whitman. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Paul Ebenkamp previously edited the Counterpoint title The Etiquette of Freedom, a conversation with Jim Harrison and Gary Snyder and Song of Myself, a collection of poems from Walt Whitman. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- A Note to Readers
- 1997
- December 7: Wallace Stevens and Joni Mitchell
- December 14: In Memoriam: James Laughlin
- December 21: Nativity Poems: William Butler Yeats and Louise Glück
- December 28: A New Year's Poemfrom the Korean Sijo Tradition
- 1998
- January 4: A Korean Poet: Ko Un
- January 11: In Memoriam: Denise Levertov
- January 19: In Memoriam: William Matthews
- January 25: Frank Bidart
- February 1: A Polish Poet: Adam Zagajewski
- February 8: A Question of Decency: Walt Whitman
- February 15: Stanley Plumly
- February 22: Sonia Sanchez
- March 1: Marie Howe
- March 8: John Koethe
- March 15: Sylvia Plath
- March 22: Ted Hughes
- March 29: Spring, and a New Translation of Horace
- April 5: Passover: Linda Pastan
- April 12: Easter: Mary Karr
- April 19: An Irish Poet: Derek Mahon
- April 26: Audubon's Birthday: Birds by Robert Frost, W. C. Williams, and Robinson Jeffers
- May 3: In Memoriam: Octavio Paz
- May 10: Mother's Day: Dorianne Laux
- May 17: Agha Shahid Ali
- May 24: Margaret Atwood
- May 31: Memorial Day and Shakespeare
- June 7: Summer and Baseball: Linda Gregerson
- June 14: Encompassing Nature:Sappho, Lady Komachi, and an Irish Bard
- June 21: Father's Day: Cornelius Eady
- June 28: Joseph Stroud and Larissa Szporluk
- July 5: Independence Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- July 12: Patriotism and Public Memory: Robert Lowell
- July 19: Susan Wheeler
- July 26: D. A. Powell
- August 2: Arthur Sze
- August 9: The Villanelle:Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop
- August 16: In Memoriam: Zbigniew Herbert
- August 23: Something Old, Something New: Charlotte Mew
- August 30: Yusef Komunyakaa
- September 6: Labor Day: Gary Snyder
- September 20: Donald Justice
- September 27: Presidents, Poets, and Shame: James Wright
- September 13: May Swenson
- October 4: Filipino Poetry: Returning a Borrowed Tongue
- October 11: John Ashbery
- October 18: Sterling Brown
- October 25: Robert Bly
- November 1: Chase Twichell
- November 8: A Canadian Poet: Roo Borson
- November 15: A Portuguese Poet: Fernando Pessoa
- November 22: Thanksgiving: Harriet Maxwell Converse and Iroquois Song
- November 29: A Swedish Poet: Tomas Tranströmer
- December 6: Czeslaw Milosz: The Poet as a Road-side
- December 13: Israeli Poems on War and Peace: Yehuda Amichai
- December 20: Christmas: Mark Doty
- December 27: A Poem for the End of a Thousand Years:W. H. Auden
- 1999
- January 2: A Scottish Poet for New Year's Day:George Mackay Brown
- January 10: In Memoriam: Margaret Walker
- January 17: In Memoriam: Janet Lewis
- January 24: Philip Larkin
- January 31: A Spanish Poet: Rafael Alberti
- February 7: George Herbert
- February 14: Valentine's Day: Kenneth Rexroth
- February 21: An Irish Poet: Paul Muldoon
- February 28: Ben Jonson
- March 7: Pattiann Rogers
- March 14: An Italian Poet: Eugenio Montale
- March 21: Claudia Rankine
- March 28: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- April 4: Easter: Charles Wright
- April 11: Richard Wright and Langston Hughes
- April 18: Wang Ping
- April 25: Michael Ondaatje
- May 2: Forrest Gander
- May 9: A Serbian Poet: Vasko Popa
- May 16: Adrienne Rich
- May 23: Malena Mörling
- May 30: Memorial Day: Jaime Sabines
- June 6: The Poetics of Travel: Elizabeth Bishop
- June 13: Paul Beatty
- June 20: Father's Day: Li-Young Lee
- June 27: Poetry and Weddings: Benjamin Saenz
- July 4: Independence Day: Rita Dove
- July 11: Fanny Howe
- July 18: Lee Ann Brown
- July 25: A Serbian Epic: The Battle of Kosovo
- August 1: Denise Levertov
- August 8: Summer Shakespeare
- August 15: Louise Glück
- August 22: In Memoriam: Sherley Anne Williams
- August 29: Naomi Shihab Nye
- September 5: Labor Day: Willam Blake and Debra Allbery
- September 12: One Thousand Years of Poetry in English: A Millennium Gathering
- September 19: Rainer Maria Rilke: Herbsttag
- September 26: Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Galway Kinnell and William Gass
- October 3: Andrew Hudgins
- October 10: Heather McHugh
- October 17: Dean Young
- October 24: John Clare
- October 31: Halloween: John Keats and Lynne McMahon
- November 7: Czeslaw Milosz: An Argument About Imperialism
- November 14: Wallace Stevens
- November 21: Thanksgiving: Daniel Halpern
- November 28: A Peruvian Poet: César Vallejo
- December 5: Bad Words: Stephen Berg
- December 12: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf as an Ecological Epic
- December 19: Snow: Emerson, Lowell, Dickinson,Longfellow, Whittier, and Stevens
- December 26: Christmas: Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter
- 2000
- January 2: New Year's Day:Tessa Rumsey and Harryette Mullen
- January 9: Charlotte Smith
- January 16: Rita Dove
- Epilogue: Ezra Pound
- Copyright Acknowledgments
- INDEX
