TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warren,James Perrin
TI  - Placing John Haines /James Perrin Warren
SN  - 9781602233102
AV  - PS3558 .P533 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Fairbanks, AK
PB  - University of Alaska Press
KW  - Haines, John,
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - Ecology in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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