Hass focuses on new poetry, but now and then he tosses in an old favorite or two. New or old, the poems he shares with us, his readers, his everyday readers, are intriguing, thoughtful, worthy.

I thank Hass for the work he did in. I wish my small town newspaper had a weekly poetry column. After all, as we poetry lovers know:

“It is difficult

to get the news from poems

     yet men die miserably every day

     for lack

of what is found there—”