With the fourth bull Gitanillo was uncertain and took no risks. 3 Later, his dissertation at Stanford combined an analysis of the nineteenth-century novel with an inquiry into economic ideology, work that provided him cover for a private and steadily growing love for poetry.

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Meanwhile, the posters were already up in Jaen and Cordoba and the villages of the Guadalsuivir valley, announcing the cartels for the feria at Linares.

“The public expects more of me every time I appear.

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For our second session, eight years later, we moved to the living room.

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Manuel Rodriguez ‘Manolete’ had entered his thirty-first year on July 4th, 1947. The three matadors were greeted with an ovation, to acknowledge which Manolete led them out, montera in hand, to the middle of the circle.

And though he would become known around the world for his poems—sometimes giving them titles like “Novella” and “A Story about the Body”—his first publication was a piece of prose fiction in a Faulknerian vein, printed in his college magazine.

He put in two pairs of sticks himself and brought off a neat faena based on two series of naturals; though he killed less than well, the crowd insisted that an ear be awarded. About. 1

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His mother struggled with alcoholism and his father seemed to hate his job, and “neither,” Hass would recall, “seemed to be having their lives.” He grew up hunting and fishing, and would one day raise his own children blackberrying and mushrooming and birding around the Bay Area.Hass also produced two volumes gathering some of his essays and reviews—Our conversation began in 2010, but we didn’t finish it until this January.

The last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador. A slight misunderstanding followed, of a kind all too common in country rings; Luis Miguel’s head peon presented him with both ears and the tail.

Gitanillo, a once-brilliant gypsy, two years Manolete’s senior and for many years his friend, took the first Miura.

And context, itself one of Hass’s great subjects, became a touchstone as the interview unfolded, too.Hass’s smile is sweet and a little bit sad. Prizes.