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What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
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What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World Hardcover - 2012

by Robert Hass


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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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  • Title What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
  • Author Robert Hass
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York
  • Date 2012-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780061923920 / 0061923923
  • Weight 1.74 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.49 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects American essays - 21st century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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