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The Art of Poetry No. 108

The Art of Poetry No. 108

By Robert Hass

Hass teaching at St. Mary's College, ca. 1977. Photo courtesy of the author. Robert Hass read poetry early on, but he first imagined being a fiction writer. And though he would become known around the world for his poems—sometimes giving them titles like “Novella” and “A Story about the Body”—his first publication was a piece of prose fiction in a Faulknerian vein, printed in his college magazine. Later, his dissertation at Stanford combined an analysis of the nineteenth-century novel wit…

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Denver to Montana Beginning 27 May 72

Denver to Montana Beginning 27 May 72

By Allen Ginsberg

West of Laramie, Elk Mt. snow covered top—Medicine Bow Mts. ranged black—that Road still ribbons past red sandstone buttes—“Looks like you shd be a yogi on each rock”—down the vast green valley floor    Like Utah, like America, mountain rookeries cliffed distant under cloud-fished transparent sky—the Blue Shield, that might be heaven over the Ferris Mountains’ precipices (illustration) striped under snow dusty pine ridges.    Great Divide Basi…

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