Robert Bernard Hass

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Robert Bernard Hass
Occupation	Poet Professor Literary Critic
Nationality	American

Robert Bernard Hass is an American poet, literary critic, and professor.

[edit] Life and Work

Robert Bernard Hass is the author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict With Science (Virginia 2002), which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004.^{[citation needed]} He is also the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Counting Thunder, due out from David Robert Books in 2008. His articles and poems have appeared in a number of journals including Poetry, Sewanee Review, Agni, Black Warrior Review, Studies in English Literature, and the Journal of Modern Literature. He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Journals Award and a creative writing fellowship to Bread Loaf.^{[citation needed]} Hass grew up in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1985, 1993, and 1999, and a M.A. from the University of Florida in 1987, studying under Donald Justice; he is currently Associate Professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in American literature and Shakespeare.^[1][2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• University of Virginia Press web site for Going by Contraries
• Mexico, a poem by Hass, at Agni online.

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