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What Light Can Do PB

by Robert Hass

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Essays on art, imagination, and the natural world

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    Former U.S. Poet Laureate

    The source refers to Robert Hass as a former U.S. Poet Laureate.

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Essays on art, imagination, and the natural world

Robert Hass’s collection ranges across literature, place, and visual art, bringing together essays on writers including Jack London, Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, and Cormac McCarthy. California and photography also receive sustained attention, with photographs accompanying the essays. The range gives the book several points of entry: it can be approached through its portraits of individual writers, its reflections on a particular region, or its consideration of how photography engages with art and the world around us. As a collection of literary criticism and essays, it connects close attention to writers with broader questions of imagination and nature.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in essays on American writers and literary criticism
  • Readers curious about California and the natural world in literature
  • Readers interested in photography alongside writing about art and imagination

Themes

Literature and literary criticismArt and imaginationCaliforniaPhotographyThe natural world

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Book overview

Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world--with accompanying photos throughout.

What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, Time and Materials, as well as his earlier book of essays, the NBCC Award-winner Twentieth Century Pleasures. Haas brilliantly discourses on many of his favorite topics--on writers ranging from Jack London to Wallace Stevens to Allen Ginsberg to Cormac McCarthy; on California; and on the art of photography in several memorable pieces--in What Light Can Do, a remarkable literary treasure that might best be described as "luminous."

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