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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 Awar...

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Main Author: Hass, Robert.
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2012.
Subjects:
Art > Philosophy > History and criticism.
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Summary: 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."
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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ISBN: 9780062096845
Author Notes: Born in San Francisco, Calif., Robert Hass received his undergraduate degree from St. Mary's College and his masters and Ph.D. from Stanford University. After graduating, Hass wrote his first collection of poetry, Field Guide, which went on to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1973. Hass's second collection, Praise, won the Williams Carlos Williams Award in 1979.

Selected by the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1995-96, Hass has taught writing at the University of California at Berkeley since 1989. Hass has co-translated several volumes of poetry by Nobel Laureate and fellow colleague Czeslaw Milosz and is the editor of The Essential Haiku.

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