{"product_id":"9780062096845_what-light-can-do","title":"What Light Can Do","description":"\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\u003eWhat 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this essential collection for readers and writers, Hass demonstrates the essay as an act of attention, turning his remarkable eye to:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePoetry Analysis:\u003c\/b\u003e Close readings of poets from Wallace Stevens and Allen Ginsberg to Cormac McCarthy, exploring how poetry is made and what it does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Art of Photography:\u003c\/b\u003e In-depth essays on landscape photographers like Robert Adams, considering how we see and imagine the earth through the camera’s lens.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLiterature and Place:\u003c\/b\u003e An exploration of California's literary landscape through the work of regional masters like Jack London, Mary Austin, and Robinson Jeffers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Essay as a Form:\u003c\/b\u003e A powerful demonstration of the essay as a search for meaning, moving from literature and war to the quiet epiphanies of the natural world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Robert Hass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132724887701,"sku":"9780062096845","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/x750_2dee2e89-1cf9-4ff4-b859-0dacdca25cfb.jpg?v=1776889824","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780062096845_what-light-can-do","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}