Stories I have listened to/Steven B. Rogers -- Part One: contributions to the literary landscape : Working in darkness/Thomas McGrath -- From A to infinity ; A half-century of the poetry of John Haines/ Marion K. Stocking -- The tenacity of John Haines/David Mason -- A form of patience: the poems of John Haines/Henry Taylor -- The hermit-seer/Miles David Moore -- "Close to religious aspirations": notes on John Haines' poetry/Robert DeMott -- Individualists and idealists: John Haines and Vincent Van Gogh, an analysis of "On a certain field in Auvers"/Donna Redhead Sandberg -- "The night of painted iron": John Haines' poems on painting and sculpture/Michael H. Lythgoe -- Part two: Interview and short glimpses : The cougar/Raymond Carver -- Homage to John Haines/John McKernan -- Wilderness and witness: an interview with John Haines/Matthew Cooperman -- "My dear John Haines"/William Carlos Williams -- Introduction at the 92nd Street Y, November 2, 1992/Robert Schultz -- John Haines and vocation/Wesley McNair -- A gas mantle lights the darkness/Helen Frost -- Stony John Haines/Donald Hall -- Part three: Alaska : There is a place you can go/Wendell Berry -- I travel with John Haines in Alaska/Clark Waterfall -- self-portrait/James Hopkins -- A walk in the snow/Gregory Orfalea -- A figure in the landscape/Jody Bolz -- Listening at the table of silence/Sheila Nickerson -- Bullet holes and hideouts: a letter from Syracuse/Tess Gallagher -- An open letter to John Haines/Marcella Wolfe -- No place for the poet: Alaska's most honored writer can't find a job at home/Mike Dunham -- The essential things/Carolyn Kremers -- Out of Alaska/John Murray -- Part four: Honoring John Haines : Wolves/Tom Sexton -- The ground of death/James A. Griffin -- Traces/ Jack Matthews -- Old bridge at Gasoline Creek/Birch Pavelsky -- Moving away/Tamlin Pavelsky -- Water birches/Nancy Shoenberger -- Another physician's appreciation of John Haines/Joel Kuritsky, M.D. -- The slower cycles of nature/Rich Bass -- Last words on the poet/John Haines. |