{"id":1051096,"date":"2026-09-08T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1051096\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:39:16","slug":"robert-hass-on-discovering-wallace-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1051096\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Hass on Discovering Wallace Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><video playsinline=\"\" style=\"height:100%;width:100%;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,&lt;svg xmlns=&quot;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&quot; width=&quot;24&quot; height=&quot;24&quot; fill=&quot;%23ffffff&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 256 256&quot;&gt;%0A%09&lt;path d=&quot;M240,128a15.74,15.74,0,0,1-7.6,13.51L88.32,229.65a16,16,0,0,1-16.2.3A15.86,15.86,0,0,1,64,216.13V39.87a15.86,15.86,0,0,1,8.12-13.82,16,16,0,0,1,16.2.3L232.4,114.49A15.74,15.74,0,0,1,240,128Z&quot;&gt;%0A&lt;\/path&gt;&lt;\/svg&gt;\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Play video\"\/><img alt=\"Video poster\" title=\"Video poster\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/77039a17-bbca-443a-a247-0976223ffb3e.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1ddfba50\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"body-dropcap css-1qqh3wl emevuu60\"><strong>I<\/strong>n this California Book Club clip, Robert Hass recalls encountering Conrad Aiken\u2019s A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry as a child and being ensnared by the word \u201ccomprehensive.\u201d Feeling that the word was significant, despite not understanding it completely, he brought the book home. Hass discovered the Wallace Stevens poem \u201cDomination of Black\u201d and became consumed by Stevens\u2019s poetic world of darkness and descriptions of sorrowful cries of a peacock. It was the first time, he recalled, that he heard someone telling the truth.\u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this California Book Club clip, Robert Hass recalls encountering Conrad Aiken\u2019s A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1051097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[31],"tags":[420954,420947,420943,420942,1022,420941,420955,420953,420952,420951,420944,420939,420940,420946,420948,171,1583,420949,420950,420937,420938,420945,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1051096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-alta-journal","tag-american-poetry","tag-bay-area-poetry","tag-bay-area-poets","tag-books","tag-california-book-club","tag-california-books","tag-california-ecology","tag-california-history","tag-california-landscape","tag-california-literature","tag-california-poetry","tag-california-poets","tag-california-writers","tag-contemporary-poetry","tag-entertainment","tag-marin-county","tag-poetry-interview","tag-poetry-reading","tag-robert-hass","tag-robert-hass-poetry","tag-san-francisco-poetry","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117236176869740190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}