What light can do essays on art, imagination, and the natural world
"[A] collection of essays on writers, place, poetry, and photography--with accompanying photos throughout"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A miscellany of short pieces to begin. Wallace Stevens in the world
- Chekhov's anger
- Howl at fifty
- The kingdom of reversals : notes on Hosoe's Mishima
- George Oppen : his art
- Ernesto Cardenal : a Nicaraguan poet's beginning
- A longer essay on literature and war. Study war no more : violence, literature and Immanuel Kant
- Some California writers. Jack London in his time : Martin Eden
- Mary Austin and The land of little rain
- The fury of Robinson Jeffers
- William Everson : some glimpses
- Maxine Hong Kingston : notes on a woman warrior
- Poets and the world. Ko Un and Korean poetry
- Milosz at eighty
- Milosz at ninety-three
- Poetry and terror : some notes on Coming to Jakarta
- Zukofsky at the outset
- Tomaž Šalamun : an introduction
- A bruised sky : two Chinese poets
- Two essays on literature and religion. Reflections on the Epistles of John
- Notes on poetry and spirituality
- Three photographers and their landscapes. Robert Adams and Los Angeles
- Robert Buelteman and the Coast Range
- Laura McPhee and the river of no return
- Three essays on (mainly) American poetry. On teaching poetry
- Families and prisons
- Edward Taylor : how American poetry got started
- Imagining the earth. Cormac McCarthy's trilogy, or, The Puritan conscience and the Mexican dark
- Black nature
- Rivers and stories : an introduction
- An oak grove.
