Robert Hass

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land. In A Third Commonness, US Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography – from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt Whitman, and even through an unlikely fellowship between Kentucky poet-priests. Told through essays...

World Literature Today Editor's Pick "Enchanting... The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely stimulating." — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings In this shimmering conversation (the outgrowth of an event co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and Poets House), Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of "consilience" or the unity of knowledge, finds...