{"product_id":"what-light-can-do-pb-paperback","title":"What Light Can Do PB - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Hass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world--with accompanying photos throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Light Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eTime and Materials\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as his earlier book of essays, the NBCC Award-winner \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century Pleasures\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 \u003cem\u003eWhat Light Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e, a remarkable literary treasure that might best be described as \"luminous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evocative and captivating collection of essays on writers, place, poetry, and photography--with accompanying photos throughout--from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Robert Hass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. The \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e hailed him as a writer who \"is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak, gives one an almost visceral pleasure.\" Now, with \u003cem\u003eWhat Light Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e, Hass's first collection of essays in more than twenty-five years, the lauded author returns to and enlarges the territory of his critically acclaimed and much-loved collection \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century Pleasures\u003c\/em\u003e, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese acute and deeply engaging essays are as much a portrait of the elegant thought processes of an unconventional and virtuoso mind as they are inquiries into their subjects, which range from meditations on how we see and how we have treated the earth, to the relationship between literature and religion, from explorations of the works of writers as diverse as Korean poet Ko Un, Wallace Stevens, Cormac McCarthy, and Anton Chekhov to the ways in which photography embodies--much like an essay--a sustained act of attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA perceptive and evocative mixture of memory, philosophical interrogation, and criticism, the essays in \u003cem\u003eWhat Light Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e, finely attuned to the pleasures and pains of being human, are always grounded in the beauty of the material world and its details, and in the larger political and social realities we inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.32 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45147916501094,"sku":"9780061923913","price":24.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/VEJEajBmc2ZnZE5RakdBdXhjUEw0QT09.webp?v=1773381036","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/what-light-can-do-pb-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}