The poems – ‘Meditation at Lagunitas’ and ‘Picking Blackberries with a Friend who has been Reading Jacques Lacan’ – are from Robert Hass’ collection of poems ‘Praise’ that was first published in 1981. Both poems, written by the same author, have several differences in style, meaning and effect. Yet, there is one similarity in both the poems, and that is the sense of nostalgia that they evoke.
In the poem Meditation at Lagunitas, the speaker remembers an intimate time spent with a woman. It seems that the speaker is reminiscing about an entire evening as he speaks of dinner, how the woman broke ...
