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Autore |
Warren James Perrin |
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Placing John Haines / James Perrin Warren |
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University of Alaska Press |
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Fairbanks, AK : , [2017] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Poets, American |
Nature in literature |
Ecology in literature |
Nature dans la litterature |
Poetes americains - 20e siecle |
Poets, American - 20th century |
Livres numériques. |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Biographies. |
Ressources Internet |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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"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. |
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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"-- |
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