pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA
NEW & SELECTED POEMS
By: Robert Hass
Format: Paperback

List price: £20.00
Our price: £14.60
Discount:
27% off
You save: £5.40
ISBN 10: 1852248971
ISBN 13: 9781852248970
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: BLOODAXE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 January, 2011
Pages: 368
Description: Robert Hass is a major American poet of world stature. This is the first book of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 20 years, and the first selected edition of his work, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
Synopsis: Robert Hass is an American poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force whose work is rooted in the landscapes of his native Northern California. 'The Apple Trees at Olema' includes work from five books - 'Field Guide', 'Praise', 'Human Wishes', 'Sun Under Wood' and 'Time and Materials' - as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling, a suite of summer lyrics, and two experiments in pure narrative that meditate on personal relations in a violent world and read like small, luminous novellas. From the beginning, his poems have seemed entirely his own: a complex hybrid of the lyric line, with an unwavering fidelity to human and non-human nature, and formal variety and surprise, and a syntax capable of thinking through difficult things in ways that are both perfectly ordinary and really unusual. Over the years, he has added to these qualities a range and a formal restlessness that seem to come from a sceptical turn of mind, an acute sense of the artifice of the poem and of the complexity of the world of lived experience that a poem tries to apprehend.Hass's work is grounded in the beauty of the physical world. His familiar landscapes - San Francisco, the northern California coast, the Sierra high country - are vividly alive in his work. His themes include art, the natural world, desire, family life, the life between lovers, the violence of history, and the power and inherent limitations of language. He is a poet who is trying to say, as fully as he can, what it is like to be alive in his place and time. His style - formed in part by American modernism, in part by his long apprenticeship as a translator of the Japanese haiku masters and Czeslaw Miosz - combines intimacy of address, a quick intelligence, a virtuosic skill with long sentences, intense sensual vividness, and a light touch.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM
A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM (HB)
APPLE TREES AT OLEMA (PB)
BLACK LIGHT
BLACK LIGHT (PB)
CARELESS RAMBLES BY JOHN CLARE
CARELESS RAMBLES BY JOHN CLARE (HB)
FACTS FOR VISITORS (PB)
FIELD GUIDE
HASS PRAISE (PAPER ONLY) (HB)
HOGS, MULES, AND YELLOW DOGS (PB)
HOMAGE TO HAT AND UNCLE GUIDE AND ELIOT (PB)
HUMAN WISHES (PB)
INTO THE GARDEN (PB)
LITTLE BOOK ON FORM (PB)
MODERNIST WOMEN POETS
MODERNIST WOMEN POETS (HB)
MODERNIST WOMEN POETS (HB)
MODERNIST WOMEN POETS (PB)
NOW AND THEN (HB)
NOW AND THEN (PB)
ON TEACHING POETRY (PB)
PRAISE (PB)
RIVER OF NO RETURN (HB)
RIVER OF WORDS (PB)
ROAD-SIDE DOG (HB)
SELECTED POEMS (HB)
SONG OF MYSELF (HB)
SONG OF MYSELF (PB)
SUMMER SNOW
SUMMER SNOW (HB)
THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA
THE ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY
THE ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY (PB)
THE ESSENTIAL HAIKU (PB)
THE FACE OF POETRY
THE FACE OF POETRY (PB)
THE GIFT OF RIVERS (PB)
THE POETIC SPECIES
THE POETIC SPECIES (HB)
THE SEVENTY PREPOSITIONS (PB)
THE TOTALITY FOR KIDS (PB)
THE WILDS (PB)
TIME AND MATERIALS
TIME AND MATERIALS (PB)
WHAT LIGHT CAN DO
WHAT LIGHT CAN DO (PB)

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Poems of the Decade (Paperback)
Faber & Faber
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Your Silence Will Not Protect You (Paperback)
Silver Press
Our Price : £10.21
more details
The Odyssey (Hardback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £12.40
more details
Milk and Honey (Paperback)
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Ten Poems About Cats (Pamphlet)
By:
Candlestick Press
Our Price : £4.34
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND BIOGRAPHY
 literature: texts
 poetry texts & anthologies


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket