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What Light Can Do - Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World (Paperback)
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What Light Can Do - Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World (Paperback)
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Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant
essayist. The New York Times 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 What Light Can Do,
Hass' 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 Twentieth Century
Pleasures, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
These 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 treat 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 - much
like an essay-embodies a sustained act of attention. A perceptive
and evocative mixture of memory, philosophical interrogation, and
criticism, the essays in What Light Can Do, 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.
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