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Placing John Haines / James Perrin Warren.

Title
Placing John Haines / James Perrin Warren.
Author
Warren, James Perrin
Publication
Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2017]

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Description
xxii, 218 pages : illustration; 23 cm
Summary
"John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries, and growing vegetables. Those years formed him as a writer--the interior of Alaska, and especially its boreal forest--marking his poetry and prose and helping him find his unique voice. Placing John Haines, the first book-length study of his work, tells the story of those years, but also of his later, itinerant life, as his success as a writer led him to hold fellowships and teach at universities across the country. James Perrin Warren draws out the contradictions inherent in that biography--that this poet so indelibly associated with place, and authentic belonging, spent decades in motion--and also sets Haines's work in the context of contemporaries like Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and his close friend Wendell Berry. The resulting portrait shows us a poet who was regularly reinventing himself, and thereby generating creative tension that fueled his unforgettable work. A major study of a sadly neglected master, Placing John Haines puts his achievement in compelling context"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 ALASKA -- ch. 1 Discovering Richardson -- Place and Voice in Winter News (1966) -- ch. 2 Inside America -- A New Poetry of the Earth -- ch. 3 Shadow Language -- Practicing the Art of Memory -- pt. 2 ANOTHER COUNTRY -- ch. 4 The Changed Pastoral -- New Poems, 1980 -- 88 -- ch. 5 The Place of Conviction and the Public Voice -- ch. 6 Somebody There -- A Career in Correspondence.
ISBN
  • 9781602233096
  • 1602233098
LCCN
^^2016025205
OCLC
  • 958783510
  • SCSB-12179200
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library