The Berkeley Bard: Robert Hass, rock star poet

June 29, 11:45 AMCulture & Events ExaminerRick Marianetti

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Yoshi's San Francisco--photo: 1stFriday.com

I guess a lot of the questions in poetry can only be answered by poetry. That is they can only be answered by dramatizing and intensifying the contradictions which we suppress in everyday life in order to get on with it--Robert Hass

Marin Catholic grad; Stanford Ph.d; MacArthur Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize; National Book Award; former U.S. Poet laureate--this partial list of awards and accomplishments only hint at the intellect and profound engagement with the world of San Francisco native/California poet Robert Hass.

From his Midwest Iowan perch, Michael Judge describes a recent dinner with Hass at "a fancy joint called Yoshi's" in the Wall Street Journal Online.

More Hass:  "I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time."

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Robert Hass: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press.