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This website is devoted to the poetry of Gilchrist Haas. It features online versions of Haas’s eight books of poetry, in addition to a book of selected poems (The Man in the Poem), a book of prose essays (A Lehusa Be (AH-lay-HOO-zuh-BAY: The Prose Writings of Gilchrist Haas), and several additional items.
Newcomers to Haas's poetry may wish to sample the "signature poems" listed below and their accompanying YouTube presentations. See also the About page for additional information about Haas and his poetry.
May 2024. Publication announcement: Haas has just published six book written in the 1990s and early 2000s and collected in two volumes: Third Nature: The First Three Books of Gilchrist Haas features Pages in a Second Round, Molly's Song (and Other Poems), and Baron, All Too Baron; No True North: Three Book-length Poems includes Chronicling the Era of Common Fun, Reading Adorno: Book One, and The Stage with No True North. Both volumes include author's prefaces, and "Haas at Forty," an essay written in 2005, is included as an appendix to Third Nature.
January 2024. Publication announcement: Haas has just published The Era of Common Fun: Shorter Selected Poems, which presents a chronological survey of Haas’s short poems from 1990 to 2023 and concludes with an autobiographical essay, “Haas at Sixty,” about Haas’s early development as an aspiring poet.
Haas’s seventh and eight books (Opus Seven: Two Small Books in the Major and Minor Modes and The Emerald Gong (and Other Poems)) are also available in print. His ninth book (And Dragons in the Crease) will be released in 2024.
June 2022. A separate section of the website is now devoted to the Piano Videos of Andy Jones, the real-world incarnation and amanuensis of Gilchrist Haas.
It's a quarry, a quandary of bone, sheer bone -
altogether more puzzling than canvas or stone.
-- 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 Ibeza 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
Accessing the Real (or, Dazzling Chrome)
Furlongs Thick and Fathoms Deep
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
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