“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 ...

In 1997, former poet laureate Hass inaugurated the now famous Poet's Choice column in the Washington Post Book World , in which he chose a poem and accompanied it with explanation or context.

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 ...