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Descent

By: John Haines

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Paperback | 1 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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"This volume bears witness to John Haines' position as a true man of letters. The essays, reviews, chronicles, memoirs, and poems (spanning four decades) testify to the breadth and depth of his concerns. The life - rooted for decades in Alaska - and the writing are bound together inextricably...What interests Haines throughout this volume is to clear away the numerous confusing, self-justifying and downright mendacious vapors that surround various human projects--be it drilling for oil or writing poems. He is a critic in the pure sense--a truth teller who has no use for relativism...Haines's voice is true and clear...an intensely American voice in that it insists we can be connected to the land in ways that may redeem and vivify us. It insists that the place of poetry is central not peripheral. It is rooted in memories that come from one man's life...This volume adds to the trove that he has bequeathed us." (Baron Wormser )

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"This volume bears witness to John Haines's position as a true man of letters. The essays, reviews, chronicles, memoirs, and poems (spanning four decades) testify to the breadth and depth of his concerns. The life - rooted for decades in Alaska - and the writing are bound together inextricably... What interests Haines throughout this volume is to clear away the numerous confusing, self-justifying and downright mendacious vapors that surround various human projects - be it drilling for oil or writing poems. He is a critic in the pure sense - a truth teller who has no use for relativism... Haines's voice is true and clear... an intensely American voice in that it insists we can be connected to the land in ways that may redeem and vivify us. It insists that the place of poetry is central not peripheral. It is rooted in memories that comes from one man's life... This volume adds to the trove that he has bequeathed us." BARON WORMSER"

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Poetry Poetry By Individual Poets Non-Fiction Prose Miscellaneous Items

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Descent
Descent	p. 3
On Poetry and Poets
The Theme of Loss, of Sorrow and Redemption in Gilgamesh	p. 11
Welcome to Apocalypse: The Poet as Prophet: Some Notes on Robinson Jeffers	p. 23
Some Thoughts on Poetry and the Call for Patriotism at this Time	p. 34
Post Haste, Post Everything	p. 36
Not Yet Angels	p. 46
The Story of a Poem	p. 52
A Poem Without Meaning	p. 55
Alaska: Stories and-Reviews
A Night on Cabin Creek	p. 59
Readings from an Alaskan Journal	p. 66
Foreword to The Last New-Land	p. 69
The Book of the Tongass (Review)	p. 74
Mark of the Bear: Legend and Lore of an American Icon (Review)	p. 81
The Fate of a River	p. 85
A Visit with a Russian Poet	p. 88
Forgotten Virtues	p. 94
Fables and Distances: A Conversation with Alaska Writer	p. 98
Poetry Chronicles
Poetry Chronicle I	p. 113
Poetry Chronicle II	p. 127
Poetry Chronicle III	p. 141
Poetry Chronicle IV	p. 153
Memoirs
Wartime: A Late Memoir	p. 169
On the Street	p. 189
Ginna	p. 197
Notes on the Contents	p. 207
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