Living off the Country : Essays on Poetry and Place by John Haines (1981, Trade Paperback)

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Product Description : When he was a homesteader in Alaska poet John Haines moved away from language and institutions to an older and simpler existence In solitude listening to his own voice the events of his life reached into the past and the futureWe live on the surface he discovered It is the land that makes people If a poet will see will feel will interpret his place and then relate that experience to what he knows of the world at large he will have a life in imagination a vitality beyond appearancesJohn Haines is author of At the End of Summer Poems 19481954 Fables and Distances New and Selected Essays and The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer He received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1991

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PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press
ISBN-100472063332
ISBN-139780472063338
eBay Product ID (ePID)89109716

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Book TitleLiving Off the Country : Essays on Poetry and Place
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSubjects & Themes / Nature, General, Poetry, Literary, American / General
Publication Year1981
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorJohn Haines
Book SeriesPoets on Poetry Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8 oz.
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in

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  • A lovely book worth having

    Lyrical writing by the great John Haines, always interesting and inspiring.

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