Field Guide Lucas takes the train to

Lucas takes the train to the city instead of the bus to school

delectably explained at the end of the book

Mansion Beach explores the depth of human relationships

"Ringingly original and just absurdly good

while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved

Field Guide Lucas takes the train toThe first collection of poems by Robert Hass, one of contemporary American poetry's most celebrated and widely read voices, and the 68th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, present sensations, and the impingements of the past upon the present.