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1 online resource (xxii, 218 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Placing John Haines; Part 1. Alaska; Chapter 1. Discovering Richardson: Place and Voice in Winter News (1966); Chapter 2. Inside America: A New Poetry of the Earth; Chapter 3. Shadow Language: Practicing the Art of Memory; Part 2. Another Country; Chapter 4. The Changed Pastoral: New Poems, 1980-88; Chapter 5. The Place of Conviction and the Public Voice; Chapter 6. Somebody There: A Career in Correspondence; Conclusion. John Haines's Place as Ecopoet; Bibliography; Notes; About the Author; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Haines, John, 1924-2011 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Haines, John, 1924-2011. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
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20th century |
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Nature in literature.
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Nature in literature. |
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Ecology in literature.
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Ecology in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Warren, James Perrin. Placing John Haines. Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, 2017 9781602233096 (DLC) 2016025205 |
| ISBN |
9781602233102 (electronic book) |
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1602233101 (electronic book) |
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1602233098 |
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9781602233096 |
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