<p>Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world—with accompanying photos throughout.</p><p><em>What Light Can Do</em> is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, <em>Time and Materials</em>, as well as his earlier book of essays, the NBCC Award-winner <em>Twentieth Century Pleasures</em>. 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 <em>What Light Can Do</em>, a remarkable literary treasure that might best be described as “luminous.”</p>