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Last night marked the end of Dallas' poetrifecta with three former poet laureates (Billy Collins, Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass) reading in the Dallas area in just 50 days. Hass, who earlier this month won the Pulitzer, read at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art. Describing Dallas as a "dazzling city," Hass said that after attending the museum's J.M.W. Turner exhibit, he walked through downtown, marveling at the mixture of skyscrapers and older merchant buildings. "Every perspective was amazing because of the architecture downtown," he said. The older buildings, "looked like something out of Edward Hopper." It was fitting for a night that featured poetry, art and poetry inspired by art. Hass began by reading several poems he had translated from Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz reflecting on various artworks. He then read a poem that tried to mimic the squeegeed blur of artist Gerhard Richter's works and another poem that featured Vermeer's "Milkmaid." The night ended with a series of spoken word poems by Dallas teenagers inspired by works in the museum. The introducers spoke highly of Hass' humility. Indeed, the first four poems he read were "Envy of Other People's Poetry," "The Problem with Describing Colors," "The Problem with Describing Trees" and "Time and Materials," which starts and stops as the speaker says, "The object of this poem is ..." |
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