{"product_id":"a-third-commonness-essays-on-poetry-poetics-and-the-natural-world-paperback","title":"A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Hass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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. Hass 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hass\u003c\/b\u003e--poet, critic, and teacher--is one of the most renowned figures of modern American literature, serving as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995-1997. In 2007, he was awarded the National Book Award and shared the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eTime and Materials: Poems 1997-2005\u003c\/i\u003e. Hass is also the author of \u003ci\u003eField Guide\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), \u003ci\u003ePraise\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), \u003ci\u003eTwentieth Century Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), and \u003ci\u003eA Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), among other works. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Saint Mary's College of California, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics until his retirement in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52071546192173,"sku":"9781556597282","price":22.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/a-third-commonness-essays-on-poetry-poetics-and-the-natural-world-paperback-1550981.webp?v=1780165745","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/a-third-commonness-essays-on-poetry-poetics-and-the-natural-world-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}