For over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and translating them into songs at once familiar and surprising. In his poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, Hazo, in a style that is unmistakably his own, extols the wonderment and discovery that emerge in the act of writing, in the movement toward wisdom that results from the expression of feeling. The Stroke of a Pen is a collection of the occasional essays on a variety of subjects, from the relationship between poetry and public speech, to the pursuit of the literary life, to reading within a cultural context governed by power relations. Two essays focus on religion and literature, and the final five include a literary travel essay on Provence, a counterpointing one on the virtues of not traveling but remaining home, a lighter essay that extends the discussion of home to houses, a memory piece on the actor Gregory Peck, and a personal reflection on the author's retirement. Throughout, Hazo is belletristic in his approach, calling on such writers as T. S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Jacques Maritain, and Nathan A. Scott, Jr., who deeply influences Hazo's thinking and writing in this entertaining collection. "The Stroke of a Pen will interest poets, writers, literary scholars, and critics, as well as broadly educated readers, who judge the balkanized, theory-and-jargon-driven engagement of literature to have lost track of the aesthetic dimension essential for the full appreciation of literature and life. By contrast, Samuel Hazo's book affirms the necessary depth of the aesthetic impulse in the deep sources of the human quest after meaning." --Daniel Tobin, Emerson College

Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations

Literature & Fiction

HAZO, Samuel

Essays & Correspondence

University of Notre Dame Press

Hazo explores through poetry the world and images of Paris as well as the feelings evoked in him as an American abroad

To Paris: Poetry

Poetry

New Directions

Poems portray the experiences of the author as a father, son, husband, army officer, and college professor.

Thank a Bored Angel: Selected Poems

Poems portray the experiences of the author as a father, son, husband, army officer, and college professor

Thank a Bored Angel

Hazo, National Book Award finalist and former State Poet of Pennsylvania, transports the reader with poems of both lament and celebration in his sensual new collection. Like a Man Gone Mad features much of the spare yet precise imagery of his earlier work. Searing portraits, a deft use of allegorical language, and a wry sense of humor are all signatures of Hazo’s unique voice. Taking up the theme of time, the poems carry the reader back and forth through personal and historical time, offering glimpses of a wide range of figures, from Pascal and Heraclitus to John F. Kennedy and Clark Gable. From each vantage point, Hazo meditates on themes of vitality and longevity, legacy and oblivion, and the enduring folly of both the individual and society. Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Like a Man Gone Mad embody a rich intellectual and emotional curiosity.

Like a Man Gone Mad: Poems in a New Century

Syracuse University Press

In this work, Hazo casts his eye back upon a career devoted to poetry. With works that are arranged loosely under the themes of love, family, and aging, this volume affirms Hazo’s status as one of the most compelling and enduring poets of his generation. Poems appearing in this collection include works which have appeared in the Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, and the Saturday Review.

And the Time Is: Poems, 1958-2013

For over fifty years, Hazo’s poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own. In this new collection, he offers his most candid reflections on the passage of time and the tenderness of the present moment. By turns convivial and introspective, these poems explore the complex synchronicity between life and art, and the connections between the personal and the political. With sharp clarity and deep emotion, Hazo continues his pursuit of wisdom and discovery through the act of expression.

They Rule the World

Review Samuel Hazo’s poems combine reality with imagination and grace. The combination produces both comprehension and wisdom. ― Ralph Nader Product Description In this work, Hazo casts his eye back upon a career devoted to poetry. With works that are arranged loosely under the themes of love, family, and aging, this volume affirms Hazo’s status as one of the most compelling and enduring poets of his generation. Poems appearing in this collection include works which have appeared in the Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, and the Saturday Review. Book Description Honorable Mention, 2015 Arab American Book Award for Poetry About the Author Samuel Hazo is the director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, where he is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His books include The Song of the Horse, Just Once, Stills, and This Part of the World. Among his translations are Adonis’s The Pages of Day and Night and Nadia Tueni’s Lebanon: Poems of Love and War.

The Less Said, the Truer: New and Selected Poems, 2016-2022

In Hazo's latest collection, The Less Said, the Truer, he brings together new poems as well as selections from three previous books--They Rule the World (2016), When Not Yet is Now (2019), and The Next Time We Saw Paris (2020). The author's poignant reflections on life and death, love and loss, and age and memory allow the poems to be deeply personal while also connecting with the everyday experiences of readers. Influenced by America's incessant wars since 2003 and the militaristic influence they have had on society, Hazo offers insight that disrupts complacency and returns us to our true natures. In keeping with his poetic style, there are no ?passenger words? in these poems. Every word counts.

For over fifty years, Hazo’s poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own. In this new collection, he offers his most candid reflections on the passage of time and the tenderness of the present moment. By turns convivial and introspective, these poems explore the complex synchronicity between life and art, and the connections between the personal and the political. With sharp clarity and deep emotion, Hazo continues his pursuit of wisdom and discovery through the act of expression.

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Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations

To Paris: Poetry

Thank a Bored Angel: Selected Poems

Thank a Bored Angel

Like a Man Gone Mad: Poems in a New Century

And the Time Is: Poems, 1958-2013

They Rule the World

And the Time Is: Poems, 1958-2013

The Less Said, the Truer: New and Selected Poems, 2016-2022

They Rule the World