Descent: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Letters

by John Haines

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193388018X
• ISBN13: 9781933880181
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: CavanKerry Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"