An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form-from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass. Robert Hass-former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize-illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this sophisticated, graceful, and accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop. A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic and reflects his profound education in the art of poetry. Starting with the exploration of a single line as the basic gesture of a poem, and moving into an examination of the essential expressive gestures that exist inside forms, Hass goes beyond approaching form as a set of traditional rules that precede composition, and instead offers penetrating insight into the true openness and instinctiveness of formal creation. A Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our longest lasting mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets.

A Little Book on Form - An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world-with accompanying photos throughout. What 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."

What Light Can Do - Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

Robert Hass est un poète américain né le 1er mars 1941 à San Francisco, en Californie.

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