Nationally acclaimed poet, photographer, filmmaker, and novelist James
Baker Hall has long been regarded as one of Kentucky's most profound
artists. Hall's growing body of work is an essential part of Kentucky's
literary tradition, and yet his poetry in particular transcends the
borders of the Commonwealth. The Total Light Process collects poems
spanning Hall's celebrated career as well as new poems that have never
before been published. The subjects of Hall's poems range from humorous
and rev