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Selected Essays, Reviews, and Letters
出版CavanKerry Press, 2010
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Writing / PoetryLiterary Collections / EssaysLiterary Collections / LettersLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralTravel / Special Interest / Literary
ISBN193388018X9781933880181
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LXLGQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Over the past half century John Haines has become a powerful independent voice in American poetry. An outsider to both academia and bohemia, surviving at a subsistence level on the margins of society, Haines has achieved a startling and often disturbing clarity about contemporary life and literature. He has brouqht existential passion back to poetry criticism, a field now so often permeated by languid politesse and pedantry. In equal measures brilliant, original, disruptive, and irascible, Haines is one of the major poet-critics of the age." "Few poets in this country write with such abiding excellence and clarity of spirit as John Haines. His gifts, whether poetry or prose, constitute some of the best that American letters have to offer. In Descent, he writes about poetry, World War II and his many homestead years in the Alaska wilderness. A rich, memorable volume, engaging and always rewarding in its revelations, it is a most welcome addition to the already long and lasting legacy of one of our nation's true literary treasures." "John Haines' title essay advocates descent into the land and the corresponding rise or flight of the free imagination. The memoirs, reviews and meditations that follow develop these themes - a literary consciousness embedded in environmental awareness, the binary of descent and flight fulfilled by an eloquent and devoted man. John Haines refreshes our literature with his gentle urgency, his readings of great, often neglected writers and his unwillingness to utter cant. Important writing by a major American poet and essayist, this book is not to be missed." --Book Jacket.