
Human Wishes
By Robert Hass
1989
First Published
4.26
Average Rating
96
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Poems deal with language, desire, suffering, art, human relationships, and mortality.
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Robert Hass
Author · 14 books
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, California, where he teaches at the University of California. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. A MacArthur Fellow and a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he has published poems, literary essays, and translations. He is married to the poet Brenda Hillman.