For The Century's End
Poems 1990-1999
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2016
104 pages
978-0-295-80680-8 (ISBN)
Description
Poet and essayist John Haines has forged, in his long career, a body of work noted both for its austere lyric beauty, anchored in the solitude and spaciousness of his early years as a homesteader in the Alaskan wilderness, and for its penetrating responsiveness to the human condition. The generous selection of poems in For the Century�s End conveys, in form and substance, the singular and exhilarating power of Haines�s poetry of the past decade, underscoring his role as one of the major writers of our time.
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08/2001
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Poem for the End of the Century
- I
- The Legend
- In the Cave at Lone Tree Meadow
- Star Photo
- The Ancestors
- NEAR Travels Far to Find Eros
- NASA Dreams Quietly of Mars
- II
- In the House of Wax
- I: "Far-sighted into yesterday . . .
- II: "We enter, adjust to the gloom, . . .
- III: "How easily in the live heat . . .
- IV: "Here is a man, thief or martyr, . . .
- V: "Here, with his tins and furs, . . .
- VI: "Nothing we have painted . . .
- VII: "Another room, . . .
- VIII: "Call those from underneath, ...
- IX: "In all these wax memorials ...
- X: "The rooms are large and numerous, . . .
- XI: "All is as it must or might be, . . .
- XII: "Were we not lost, condemned . . .
- III
- The American Dream
- City of Orphans
- Kent State, May 1970
- Notes on the Capitalist Persuasion
- Politics and the Dead
- Blood
- The Unemployed, Disabled, and Insane
- It Could Happen Again
- The Last Election
- IV
- A Guide to the Four-Chambered Heart
- I: The Chart
- II: The Wreck
- III: The Flowering Plum
- IV: Dead Leaves
- Orpheus
- The Telling
- Wounded Life
- Another Country
- V
- Eclipse
- The Ghost Towns
- Star Struck
- The Ice Child
- Roadside Weeds
- Snow
- For a Young Student
- Days of Slaughter
- To the End
- NOTES
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
