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Title: The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems by John Meade Haines ISBN: 1-55597-246-2 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Summary: America's great living poet of solitude.
Comment: John Haines ranks with Thoreau, Emily Dickinson and Robinson Jeffers as one of the great solitaries of American literature. Whether he writes about hunting for moose near his Alaskan homestead or the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, Haines remains true to his basic theme: that each of us is alone in the world, with only the examples presented by nature and art to guide us. If we are to survive, we must constantly use our minds and hearts to draw whatever wisdom we can from our experience, and make whatever accommodations we can to people and places beyond the narrow confines of our lives. He does not ask us to share his solitude so much as he tries to make us realize our own, and to help us find sustenance based on that knowledge. Haines' style--laconic, short-lined, plain but never easy--is among the most distinguished of any living poet. There are few contemporary poems, for example, as haunting as his "Rain Country": "All that we loved: a fire/ long dampened, the quenched/whispering down of faded/straw and yellowing leaves.//The names and the voices/within them, speak now/ for the slow rust of things/ that are muttered in sleep." The paperback edition of "The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer" contains more than twenty poems--mostly uncollected work from the 1960s--which do not appear in the hardcover version. This automatically makes it the better buy. John Haines has studiously avoided both the limelight and the tenure track, and thus has shunned the sort of lionization John Ashbery could not live without. But he is known and cherished by those readers who still believe that poetry can exhibit something akin to moral and intellectual force. It is, at the very least, an even trade.
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Title: The Stars, the Snow, the Fire by John Haines ISBN: 155597306X Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Best Words, Best Order, 2nd Edition: Essays on Poetry by Stephen Dobyns ISBN: 1403961476 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 02 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop ISBN: 0374518173 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Living Off the Country : Essays on Poetry and Place by John Haines ISBN: 0472063332 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 01 January, 1982 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: From the Century's End: Poems: 1990-1999 (The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) by John Haines ISBN: 0295981458 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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