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Title: From the Century's End: Poems : 1990-1999 (The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) by John Haines ISBN: 0-295-98145-8 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Summary: Can poetry be important? Yes, it can.
Comment: John Haines has often quoted the novelist Hermann Broch: "Political indifference is ethical indifference." Haines adds that soon it becomes esthetic indifference as well. "For the Century's End," Haines's latest book, contains poems that are exemplary of political, ethical and esthetic commitment. Poems such as "Blood," "Politics and the Dead," and "Kent State, 1970" show a meticulous attention to craft, a deep, melancholy sense of history, and an abiding sympathy and outrage on behalf of history's victims. In poems such as "In the House of Wax," he creates grim historic panoramas in the sparest of words: "Crowned heads and axes fall,/thugs and jailors rise/and displace each other/in this long, uneasy walk/we have littered/with claims and captions." Not many contemporary poems can claim to be "important"--i.e. to combine excellence of phrase and image with urgency of message. These are, and these do.

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