{"product_id":"what-light-can-do-essays-on-art-imagination-and-the-natural-world","title":"What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Ecco, 2012. 1st ed., first printing (full number line). Quarto in pale, color illus jacket; xi, 479 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Very small remainder mark to bottom edge; else fine in fine jacket. As new. Please see photos.  in as new dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780061923920\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned by Hass on title page. \"[A] collection of essays on writers, place, poetry, and photography--with accompanying photos throughout.\" Contents: A miscellany of short pieces to begin. Wallace Stevens in the world -- Chekhov's anger -- Howl at fifty -- The kingdom of reversals: notes on Hosoe's Mishima -- George Oppen: his art -- Ernesto Cardenal: a Nicaraguan poet's beginning -- A longer essay on literature and war. Study war no more: violence, literature and Immanuel Kant -- Some California writers. Jack London in his time: Martin Eden -- Mary Austin and The land of little rain -- The fury of Robinson Jeffers -- William Everson: some glimpses -- Maxine Hong Kingston: notes on a woman warrior -- Poets and the world. Ko Un and Korean poetry -- Milosz at eighty -- Milosz at ninety-three -- Poetry and terror: some notes on Coming to Jakarta -- Zukofsky at the outset -- Tomaž Šalamun: an introduction -- A bruised sky: two Chinese poets -- Two essays on literature and religion. Reflections on the Epistles of John -- Notes on poetry and spirituality -- Three photographers and their landscapes. Robert Adams and Los Angeles -- Robert Buelteman and the Coast Range -- Laura McPhee and the river of no return -- Three essays on (mainly) American poetry. On teaching poetry -- Families and prisons -- Edward Taylor: how American poetry got started -- Imagining the earth. Cormac McCarthy's trilogy, or, The Puritan conscience and the Mexican dark -- Black nature -- Rivers and stories: an introduction -- An oak grove.\/ Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hass, Robert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46056242413826,"sku":"93951.0","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_10_ad814f16-b121-44cb-aa54-e0f6078b8ac5.jpg?v=1744103544","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/what-light-can-do-essays-on-art-imagination-and-the-natural-world","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}