Descent

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 the various modes represented in this volume is to clear away the numerous confusing, self-justifying and downright mendacious vapors that surround various human projec...