John Haines, Author . Univ. of Washington $25 (104p) ISBN 978-0-295-98145-1
The severe, ecology-minded Haines has long been known for verse and memoirs about the Alaskan wild, where he made his home for over a decade: volumes like The Stars, the Snow, the Fire
and News from the Glacier
garnered him a loyal audience and a...
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John Haines, Author Graywolf Press $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55597-227-1
Many of the selections in this collection by award-winning poet Haines (The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer) are informed critiques of work produced by other poets, such as Robinson Jeffers, Carolyn Forche and John Ashbery, that will be of the...
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John Haines, Author Graywolf Press $25 (280p) ISBN 978-1-55597-184-7
This collection gathers work from eight previous books by Haines ( Uncollected and New Poems ), a remarkable and idiosyncratic poet. Although the landscape of Alaska, where he was a homesteader for 20 years, is always present in his poetry, Haines...
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John Haines, Author Copper Canyon Press $14 (80p) ISBN 978-1-55659-079-5
This collection of verse, written during what Haines calls an ""early period of apprenticeship"" when he was living in New York City, reveals a roving, youthful romantic heart. Most of the poems are imagistic scenes that feature subtle changes in...
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John Haines, Author Graywolf Press $17.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-55597-117-5
In these essays Haines, a poet, offers impressions garnered during his years as a homesteader in the Alaskan wilderness. He builds a cabin, makes trails, learns to trap and quietly observes the animals he kills, the snow and the ice, the changes of...
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