What Light Can Do: Writing as Attention

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What Light Can Do: Writing as Attention

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78 minutes

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Sep 14, 2012

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Hass, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, is also a luminous essayist. In this talk and discussion with poet Carol Muske-Dukes, he considers the claims on a poet’s attention as he explores art, imagination, and the natural world.

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Sep 14, 2012

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