The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Meade Haines
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Art or artists, Forests or forestry, Animals, Urbanization
The poetry of John Haines prompts a peculiar but compelling question: What do the varnished floors, white walls, and glass cases of art museums and galleries have in common with the frozen landscape of the Alaskan tundra? When one reads through The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer, surprising connections between them emerge, much as insights float to consciousness in meditation. The collection itself is a kind of museum in that the poems exhibit Haines’s experience of homesteading and trapping in the Alaskan wilderness and also living in cities and studying the great art...
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