The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems

Haines, John Meade

ISBN 10: 1555971849 / ISBN 13: 9781555971847

Published by Graywolf Press (edition First Edition), 1993

About this Item

With dust jacket. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Seller Inventory # 1555971849-11-1-29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems
• Publisher: Graywolf Press (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555971849
• ISBN 13: 9781555971847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of poems taken from the author's eight previous books looks at humans' relationship with each other and with the natural world

About the Author

Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1924, John Haines studied at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art. He homesteaded in Alaska for over twenty years. He is the author of several major collections of poetry; a collection of reviews, essays, interviews, and autobiography, Living Off the Country (University of Michigan Press, 1981); and a memoir, The Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Graywolf Press, 1989). He has received numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and most recently a Western State Arts Federation Lifetime Achievement Award and a Lenore Marshall/The Nation poetry prize for New Poems 1980-1988 (Story Line Press, 1990). He is currently a freelance writer and teacher and still spends part of each year in Alaska.