The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems

Praise for John Haines

"A writer of rare vision and poetic eloquence."
—Robert Michael Pyle, New York Times Book Review

"Haines has always written with a beautiful ear. His early work distinguished itself by combining lucid images from the natural world with a dreamy inwardness. An imagination of solitude inhabited a solitary landscape; if the sensibility relished an ascetic purity, the body presented itself in the mouth's pleasure of vowel and in the eye's exactness. The later work ... retain...