num_pages: 496
description: Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning wide-ranging collection of essays on art imagination and the natural worldwith accompanying photos throughout. What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureates 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 topicson 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 piecesin What Light Can Do  a remarkable literary treasure that might best be described as luminous.
language: English
title: What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
publisher: Ecco