{"product_id":"what-light-can-do-pb-9780061923913","title":"What Light Can Do PB","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\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Light Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eTime and Materials\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as his earlier book of essays, the NBCC Award-winner \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century Pleasures\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 \u003cem\u003eWhat Light Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e, a remarkable literary treasure that might best be described as \"luminous.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHass, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include \u003cem\u003eThe Apple Trees at Olema\u003c\/em\u003e (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner \u003cem\u003eTime and Materials\u003c\/em\u003e (Ecco, 2008), \u003cem\u003eSun Under Wood\u003c\/em\u003e (Ecco, 1996), \u003cem\u003eHuman Wishes\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), \u003cem\u003ePraise\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), and \u003cem\u003eField Guide\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer's \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa\u003c\/em\u003e (1994). His essay collection \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eccopress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459899527442,"sku":"9780061923913","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_661cef49-9ea0-411f-8cfd-a90abdc69ac1.jpg?v=1730013090","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-light-can-do-pb-9780061923913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}