Haines, John Mead
Haines, John Mead( 1924– ),born in Norfolk, Va., and trained in art schools, homesteaded 90 miles east of Fairbanks, Alaska, for over 20 years. He is best known as a poet: Winter News (1966), The Stone Harp (1971), Cicada (1977), and News from the Glacier: Selected Poems 1960–1980 (1982). Recent works include New Poems 1980–1988 (1990), The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer (1993), and For the Century's End: Poems, 1990–1999 (2001). His poems and his collections of essay/memoirs are strikingly visual. The latter are Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (1981), The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness (1989), and Fables and Distances (1996).
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