“Are you there?” asks Robert Hass, in the opening poem of The Apple Trees at Olema. “It’s summer. Are you smeared with the juice of cherries?” A poet known for his perceptive renderings of the natural ...

As he wrote in his grand poem “A Treatise on Poetry” (1957 ... Yet Miłosz’s frequent translator Robert Hass, together with David Frick, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures ...

Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems ...