Meditation at Lagunitas

"Meditation at Lagunitas" is a poem by American poet and academic Robert Hass. It is his most famous poem, although poet Dan Chiasson has referred to it as "among his weakest."[1][2] The work deals in part with language, and its inadequacies.[3][4]

Writing for Poetry, Pimone Triplett referred to the poem as "[...] one of the poems that can save you".[5]

  1. ^ Orr, David (14 May 2010). "Robert Hass's Empathy and Desire". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  2. ^ Chiasson, Dan (19 November 2007). "Late and Soon". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  3. ^ O'Driscoll, Dennis (Winter 1994). "Beyond Words: The Poetry of Robert Hass". The Poetry Ireland Review (43/44): 163–165. JSTOR 25577852.
  4. ^ Bond, Bruce (1990). "An Abundance of Lack: The Fullness of Desire in the Poetry of Robert Hass". The Kenyon Review. 12 (4): 46–53. JSTOR 4336331.
  5. ^ Triplett, Pimone. "On Robert Hass's "Meditation at Lagunitas"". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 21 June 2019.