{"product_id":"a-third-commonness-by-robert-hass-9781556597282","title":"A Third Commonness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Third Commonness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eA Third Commonness\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a love letter to landscape as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHass weaves histories with the boundless hand of a passionate reader inseparable from literary vitality. Hass revels at genius, saying, \u003ci\u003eHere it is, this stretch of it.\u003c\/i\u003e 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Hass personalizes everything, warms everything up. He's an open book; but he's also someone whom readers should, in every sense of the phrase, keep their eye on.' – \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The book isn't merely a master class on form. It's a jump-starter for that most necessary of tools for the artist or lover of art, if not for everyone: the sensibility.' – Craig Teicher, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Paying deep attention is clearly Hass' way of honoring the subjects that compel him...This is a book of wide-awake, erudite prayer.' – Gayle Brandeis, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eSFGate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Vietnam, Iraq, Dostoyevsky's characters, dishes of raspberry and chocolate, a gardener who once worked for Emily Dickinson, and many more images are here developed in Hass's richly allusive mind.' – James Naiden, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'These poems are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture.' – National Book Foundation \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Hass seems to suggest we may hope for more: poetry, being inherently political, may help us grasp and appreciate the reality of what we are doing and of what can and must be done.' – Troy Jollimore, National Book Critics Circle \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A remarkable volume of poems...Field Guide is a means of naming things, of establishing an identity through one's surroundings, of translating the natural world into one's private history.' – \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67708755542252,"sku":"9781556597282","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781556597282-a-third-commonness-1.jpg?v=1791835083","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/a-third-commonness-by-robert-hass-9781556597282","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}