Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Robert Hass
Born: March 1, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005.
Known for:
- Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 (2007)
- Sun Under Wood (1996)
- Human wishes (1989)
- Twentieth century pleasures (1984)