Essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment, the former United States Laureate is a poet of great clarity and force. Poet Stanley Kunitz wrote, "Reading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean when the temperature of the water is different from that of the air. You scarcely know, until you feel the undertow tug at you, that you have entered into another element."

5 of 27 episodes displayed
View All Episodes >
(22 more)