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What light can do, essays on art, imagination, and the natural world, Robert Hass

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What light can do

806296065

Robert Hass

essays on art, imagination, and the natural world

"[A] collection of essays on writers, place, poetry, and photography--with accompanying photos throughout"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket

A miscellany of short pieces to begin. Wallace Stevens in the world -- Chekhov's anger -- Howl at fifty -- 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