A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World

by Robert Hass

Genres: Poetry

464 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 26, 2026

About the author

Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, California, where he teaches at the University of California. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. A MacArthur Fellow and a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he has published poems, literary essays, and translations. He is married to the poet Brenda Hillman.