Embedded Files
This website is devoted to the poetry of Gilchrist Haas. Please explore the "signature poems" listed below and their accompanying YouTube presentations. The About page contains links to online versions of his ten books and includes additional information about Haas and his poetry.
It's a quarry, a quandary of bone, sheer bone -
altogether more puzzling than canvas or stone.
      Â
-- from "Making the Poem" --
Signature Poems
15-line Poems:
Hu and Shu and the Kingdom of Chaos
The Lost Theatre of Quiverbow at Nova
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
A Picture of the Younger Laroon
Schoenberg's Second String Quartet
Harmonia, Pythagoras and the Blacksmiths of Samos
Cosmic Platform (or, Ready as Ever)
Beyond the Pales of the Hundredth Station (or, Ducking the Punches)
More Time (Litany on a Common Desire)
Poem for My Wife, in Anticipation of an Empty Nest
The Palindromic Means and Ends of Sleep
A Lehúsa Be (A Page from the Library of Borges)
Other Poems:
Brothers' Drinking Song (for Jeff)
The Window and the Faces in the Rain
My Rod and My Staff and My Other I
The World's Second Funniest Joke
The Poet and the Steeple on Her Rock
Our Buoyant Earth (or, Everyman's Sestina)
Race to the Top (or, A Nation Still at Risk)
The Ten Worlds of Nichiren Daishonin (or, Claiming Our Buddhahood)
Douglass Speaks (or, Plucked Orangutan)
The Weight, 2020 (or, It Ain't for Free!)
The Dark Star of Gilchrist Haas
Poems from "From the Valley of Shifting Sands":
Precious Schlock (In memoriam Lou Reed)
The Songs That Molly Used to Sing
My Horoscope (or, Baser Quartz)
Herein Housed (or, Some Folks Within These Prints)
Sabbath (or, The Sanctity of Rest)
Like Ferdinand (or, Taurus Moon)
The Buddha's Five Remembrances
Along the Cosmic Path (Beethoven's Final String Quartet)
Calliope
Oblique Strategies (Cantos 1-4)
Giant Steps (or, Always Underway)
I'll Buy a Drone to Fly Inside My Head
Shadow Life (or, Like Fey Bo Peep)
Selections from "Forked Lightning: Ten New Villanelles":
New Metaphors of Elemental Fire
The Dialectic of Surfeit and Need
Furlongs Thick and Fathoms Deep
Accessing the Real (or, Dazzling Chrome)
The Universe Is God Enough for Me
Selections from Some Sentences: 170 Sonnets:
Promise to Angels (or, Odd Man Out)
The Dual Dependency of Fun and Disgust (or, Our Mundane Tour)
Finite Immortality (or, Those Quondam Youngsters with Spondaic Names)
What I've Learned Through This Week's Top AI-generated Fake News Stories
The Songs That Fill My Head (or, Through Text and Tune)
Andante comodo (or, What I Learned Through Mahler's 9th)
The Nonsense in Which Existence Found You
Borodin's Nocturne (Love Poem)
As They Mount Their Rising Star
The Lower Vistas of the Higher Mind
Google Sites
Report abuse