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<p>An 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</p> <p>Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. the <b>New York Times</b> 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 <b>What Light Can Do</b>, 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 <b>Twentieth Century Pleasures</b>, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award.</p> <p>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 pho

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Author

Robert Hass; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062240071

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry

Rating

4.08 / 5 (170 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14