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."
| ISBN: | 9781556597282 |
| Publication date: | 18th June 2026 |
| Author: | Robert Hass |
| Publisher: | Copper Canyon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 376 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary essays Speeches Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: poetry and poets Nature and the natural world: general interest |
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."
A Third Commonness features in the following genres: Literary essays, Speeches, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Nature and the natural world: general interest
A Third Commonness is available in Paperback
A Third Commonness was written by Robert Hass and published by Copper Canyon Press
A Third Commonness has 376 pages
£14.39