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About Robert Hass
by Douglas Haynes
Robert Hass is a native Californian whose poetry is well-known for its West Coast subjects and attitude.
Born in San Francisco on March 1, , Hass grew up in the Marin County suburb of San Rafael, where he attended a private Catholic school. His family included two figures who obviously affected his poetry: his older brother, who encouraged Robert to dedicate himself to writing; and his mother, whose alcoholism is a major subject in Hass's most recent book of poems Sun Under Wood ().
As a teenager, Hass was impressed by the burgeoning San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene of the s. "I started out imagining myself as a novelist or essayist, but then Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg came along; and poetry, imbued with the whole lifestyle of the Beats, was much more exciting," he states in a Publishers Weekly interview with Michael Coffey.
Sparked by the Beats, Hass's interest in poetry blossomed under the influence of East
