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A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World

A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World

Hass, Robert

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Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1556597282
ISBN13: 9781556597282
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.


In A Third Commonness, US Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography--from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt Whitman, and even through an unlikely fellowship between Kentucky poet-priests. Told through essays and lectures, A Third Commonness is as much a love letter to landscape as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage. Hass weaves histories with the boundless hand of a passionate reader inseparable from literary vitality. Hass revels at genius, saying, Here it is, this stretch of it. Sometimes with a requiem, other times with romance or political reckoning, Hass returns to the amazements of a poetry that encounters itself over and again, beckoned into being by some propelling force.

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