Robert Hass

Berkeley prof and former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass giving a tour of the Berkeley Poetry Walk on Addison St. He is such a sweet man and I *finally* got to see him!

 

"It's not the story though, not the friend

leaning toward you, saying 'And then I realized--,'

which is the part of stories one never quite believes.

I had the idea that the world's so full of pain

it must sometimes make a kind of singing.

And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps--

First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing."

Done