What Light Can Do - Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

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."

Product details

• Authors: Robert Hass
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2012
• EAN: 9780061923920
• ISBN: 978-0-06-192392-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, ART / History / General, POETRY / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, General and world history, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, POETRY: CRITICISM, Poetry / Criticism