[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and got sick and died.
Robert HassProse gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.
Robert HassEnvironmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.
Robert HassKo Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.
Robert HassI thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.
Robert HassI think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about Baghdad if I didn't have any good ideas about how to write about it.
Robert Hass