Robert Hass, a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of English and U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997, read from Summer Snow — his first poetry collection since 2010 — on Feb. 6, 2020, at the Morrison Library's monthly event, Lunch Poems.
Geoffrey O'Brien, a Berkeley English professor and poet, introduced Hass: \"He has a remarkable way of making a language that's tensile and full of prosodies, and yet still feels like down-home conversation that cats and dogs can understand,\" he said.
Hass read five poems — \"The Grandfather's Tale,\" \"Dancing,\" \"First Poem,\" \"Nature Notes in the Morning\" and \"Cymbeline.\"
Listen to full readings from Summer Snow and read a transcript on Berkeley News.
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