| Robert Haas is the author of three books of poems, Field Guide (1973), Praise (1979), and Human Wishes, which was published by the Ecco Press in 1989. He has co-translated several volumes of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, including Unattainable Earth and Provinces, and contributed to Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets. He has edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Thomas Tranströmer, as well as The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashö, Busan, and Issa. A book of his essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. His many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. In 1995 he was selected by the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate of the United States. Robert Haas is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book of poetry is Sun Under Wood, and his most recent book is Poet's Choice: Poems for Everyday Life. |