Life

Hass was innate around San Francisco. Bucked higher to dedicate himself to his writing by his older brother, Hass grew up by having an alcoholic mother. (His mother's alcoholism was a major topic in the 1996 verse form collection, Sun Under Wood.) Awe-in awe of by Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, among others in the 1950s Bay Area poetry scene, Hass entertained the idethe of becoming a beatnik. Hass was interested whilst a front yard became influenced by East Asian literary techniques, like haiku.

Career

Hass graduated from St. Mary's College in Moraga, California in 1963, and received his MA and Ph.D. in English from Stanford University in 1965 and 1971 respectively. At Stanford he exposed by owning a poet & critic Yvor Winters, whose ideas influenced his late writing & intellection. Hass taught literature & writing at a State University of New York at Buffalo in 1967. From either 1971 to 1989, he taught at his alma mater St. Mary's, at which period he transferred to the faculty of University of California, Berkeley.

From either 1995-1997, Hass served 2 terms when a America Poet Laureate (Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress), & became the easily-known champion of literacy, poetry, and ecological awareness. He criss-crossed a united states lecturing in situ when diverse when corporate council chamber & for even civic groups, or when he has said, "places where poets don't go." Since his self-described "act of citizenship," he has written the every week column in poetry in the Washington Post. He serves as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, & works actively for literacy and the epa.

Divertingly, Hass says that he admires beat poet Lew Welch's short poem "Raid Kills Bugs Dead". He commented inside an archived on the internet chat that "It's to the point." Around Hass' opinion, a 5 first poets of the previous L years were Spanish poets Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo, and Polish poets Zbigniew Herbert, Nobel-winner Wislawa Szymborska, and Nobel-winner Czesław Miłosz.

When at Berkeley, Hass has translated a poetry of his fellow Berkeley prof & neighbor Czesław Miłosz when section of the team by owning Robert Pinsky and Milosz.

Awards

Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, 1972, for Field Guide William Carlos Williams Award, 1979, for Praise National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, 1984, for Twentieth Century Pleasures National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, 1996, for Sun Under Wood