The Apple Trees at Olema by Hass, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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July Notebook Sleep like the down elevator’s In front of me six African men, each of them tall They are built like exclamation points, woodpeckers. Are you there? It’s summer. Are you smeared with the juice of cherries? After Coleridge and for Milosz For C.R. Late afternoons in June the fog rides in

August Notebook

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Variations on a Passage in Edward Abbey The Bus to Baekdam Temple Song of the Border Guard September Notebook

Everyone comes from a long way off Driving up 80 in the haze, they talked and talked. Alternatively He found that it was no good trying to tell Names for involuntary movements of the body— The receptionist at the hospital morgue told him Setup without the punchline Once there were two sisters called Knock Me and Sock Me “Why?” he asked. “Because she was lonely It is good to sit down to birthday cake Stories about the distribution of wealth How Eldie Got Her Name Punchline without the setup He had known, as long as he’d known anything Because she, not her sister, answered the door A Ballad She looked beautiful, and looked her age, too. Two jokes walk into a bar. In the other world the girls were named Eleanor and Filina

Some of David’s Story Snowy Egret The Red Chinese Dragon and the Shadows on Her Body in the Moonlight From Field Guide

On the Coast near Sausalito Fall Maps Adhesive Bookbuying in the Tenderloin Spring Song Palo Alto Concerning the Afterlife, the Indians of Central California Had Only the Dimmest Notions The Nineteenth Century as a Song Measure Applications of the Doctrine House In Weather

From Praise

Heroic Simile Meditation at Lagunitas Sunrise The Yellow Bicycle Against Botticelli Like Three Fair Branches from One Root Deriv’d Transparent Garments The Image The Feast The Pure Ones The Garden of Delight Santa Lucia To a Reader The Origin of Cities Winter Morning in Charlottesville Old Dominion Monticello Emblems of a Prior Order Weed Child Naming Flowers Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan The Beginning of September Not Going to New York Songs to Survive the Summer

From Human Wishes

Spring Drawing Vintage Spring Rain Late Spring Rusia en 1931 Spring Drawing 2 Calm Museum Novella Churchyard Conversion Human Wishes Tall Windows The Harbor at Seattle Paschal Lamb Duck Blind Quartet A Story About the Body In the Bahamas January The Apple Trees at Olema Misery and Splendor Santa Lucia II Cuttings Santa Barbara Road Berkeley Eclogue Privilege of Being Natural Theology Tahoe in August Thin Air Between the Wars On Squaw Peak

From Sun Under Wood

Happiness Our Lady of the Snows Dragonflies Mating My Mother’s Nipples The Gardens of Warsaw Layover Notes on “Layover” The Woods in New Jersey Iowa City A Note on “Iowa City Sonnet Faint Music Forty Something Shame Regalia for a Black Hat Dancer Jatun Sacha Frida Kahlo English The Seventh Night Interrupted Meditation

From Time and Materials

Iowa, January After Trakl Envy of Other People’s Poems A Supple Wreath of Myrtle Futures in Lilacs Three Dawn Songs in Summer The Distribution of Happiness Etymology The Problem of Describing Color The Problem of Describing Trees Winged and Acid Dark A Swarm of Dawns, a Flock of Restless Noons Breach and Orison The World as Will and Representation After the Winds For Czesław Miłosz in Kraków Time and Materials Art and Life Domestic Interiors Twin Dolphins Then Time That Music Czesław Miłosz Horace State of the Planet Poem with a Cucumber in It Drift and Vapor (Surf Faintly) “…White of Forgetfulness, White of Safety” I Am Your Waiter Tonight and My Name Is Dmitri A Poem Bush’s War Pears The Dry Mountain Air First Things at the Last Minute Poet’s Work Mouth Slightly Open Old Movie with the Sound Turned Off Ezra Pound’s Proposition On Visiting the DMZ at Panmunjon Consciousness Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow September, Inverness

Notes and Acknowledgments About the Author Other Books by Robert Hass Credits Copyright About the Publisher

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