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English Professor Robert Hass wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Time and Materials"
By Kathleen Maclay, Public Affairs | 07 April 2008
BERKELEY – Robert Hass, an award-winning UC Berkeley professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate, has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his latest book, "Time and Materials."
Hass, won the National Book Award for poetry in 2007 for the same collection of poems. It is issued for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
Hass is the fourth current member of the UC Berkeley faculty to win a Pulitzer Prize. Hass said he\'s very grateful for the prize and "a bit overwhelmed by the generosity of the Cal community, which has flooded me with notes of congratulations."
Janet Broughton, dean of arts and humanities at UC Berkeley and a professor of philosophy, expressed appreciation for the latest award for Hass.
"First the National Book Award and now the Pulitzer Prize!" she said. "I\'m thrilled by this recognition for Professor Hass\'s poetry, which is deeply personal and yet passionately engaged with the great public issues of our time. It seems especially right that Professor Hass should receive this kind of nationwide acclaim; he\'s been a longtime champion of poetry as a force in our national life."
In their announcement, the Pulitzer judges noted the familiar landscapes of Hass\'s winning poetry — San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country — "in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of history; the power and limits of language; and, as in his other books, domestic life and the conversation between men and women. New themes emerge as well, perhaps: the essence of memory and of time."
Hass, 67, has made important contributions to poetry, criticism and translation. In addition to his poetry recognized with the Pulitzer Prize, his books of poetry include "Sun Under Wood," "Human Wishes," "Praise" and "Field Guide," which won the 1973 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. His critical essays are assembled in "Twentieth Century Pleasures," and the poets he has translated include Czeslaw Milosz, Tomas Tranströmer, and masters of Japanese haiku.
He was the U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997. In addition to teaching at UC Berkeley, Hass is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is co-founder of River of Words, an organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. His wife, Brenda Hillman, also is a poet.
Robert Hass is the author of three books of poems, Field Guide (1973), Praise (1979), and Human Wishes, which was published by the Ecco Press in 1989. He has co-translated several volumes of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, including Unattainable Earth and Provinces, and contributed to Dante\'s Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets. He has edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Thomas Tranströmer, as well as The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashö, Busan, and Issa. A book of his essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. His many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. In 1995 he was selected by the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate of the United States. Robert Haas is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book of poetry is Sun Under Wood, and his most recent book is Poet\'s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life.