{"product_id":"a-third-commonness","title":"A Third Commonness","description":"\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\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThird Commonness\u003c\/i\u003e, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography, from Zen Buddhist poetry to California Ecopoetry, from Walt Whitman to T.S. Eliot, and even through an unlikely fellowship between Kentucky poet-priests. Told through various essays and lectures, \u003ci\u003eThird Commonness\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a book of literary criticism as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage. Hass weaves these histories together with the boundless hand of a writer inseparable from modern American literature. \"Here it is, this stretch of it,\" he says. Sometimes there is a requiem, other times—a romance or a political reckoning. Always we return to poetry, which encounters itself over and over again, beckoned into being by some “propelling force.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504884818293,"sku":"9781556597282","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781556597282.jpg?v=1786953802","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/a-third-commonness","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}