THE STARS, THE SNOW, THE FIRE
Book ID/图书代码： 05365005B07289
English Summary/英文概要： In this wilderness classic, the quintessential Alaskan frontiersman relates his experiences from over twenty years as a homesteader. As New York Newsday has said of his work, If Alaska had not existed, Haines might well have invented it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作家 John Haines 帶你遠離城市的塵囂 這是一本會讓您的心回歸沉靜的書
這本是一本描寫荒原的經典。一位阿拉斯加邊疆的居民講述了他20多年的生活經歷。紐約新聞日報這樣稱讚他的作品：如果阿拉斯加不存在，也許是Haines創造了它。作者Haines在阿拉斯加的一個小木屋住了25年, 離最近的小鎮有100公里。他與人接觸的機會極少，所以每次相遇和交談都是最細節的交談及感動的敍述…… (Silvia & Jennifer)
Awards/获奖情况：古根漢研究獎 & 國家藝術成就貢獻獎 Reviews
“An invaluable addition to American literature.”---Booklist, starred review
“Such a life may not be possible again. So it is good that a writer of Mr. Hainess rare vision and poetic eloquence lived this life, and good that he has shared it.”---New York Times Book Review
“The Haines memoir comes out of a quarter of a century spent in a cabin on a homestead amid the tundra meadows and taiga in the hills 60 miles up the Tanana River from Fairbanks, Alaska. It was a place and a life in which essentials ruled, an existence as near to that half-mythic thing we celebrate as the frontier experience as could be found anywhere in the 20th century. Haines was a trapper and a hunter, cutting trails into the wilderness, building trapline cabins in which to hole up, selling pelts he had cured himself from animals he had skinned himself, eating the meat he shot, his human contacts so rare that every encounter and every conversation could be remembered in exquisite detail. . . . Haines is a poet who crafts each sentence piece by piece as if he were building a harpsichord slowly, carefully, each word examined meticulously for rightness before being slid into place.”---From The Washington Post
“This book is a collection of previously published essays (in Harper’s magazine, among others) by poet/nature essayist Haines on life in the Alaskan wilderness. Each of the chapters can be read as an independent essay, but Haines’s pervading theme is of a wilderness that is both unchanging and changed greatly over the centuries. Snow, the trees, and the animals are records of what has happened before. The book’s philosophical underpinnings are much more subtle than Sam Wright’s Koviashuvick: A Time and Place of Joy. Haines’s descriptions of the wilderness are easier to picture, and the reader feels the experience more personally. ---Mary J. Nickum, Library Journal
As a painter and one of our country’s foremost poets, Haines has done more than his share to help preserve the nature he loves. Many people have gone into the wilderness and been inspired; only a handful have emerged with the enviable ability of a John Haines to enrich us with first-rate stories about how-and how deeply-they lived. ---Sierra
About the Author/作者介绍： John Haines以傑出的詩歌作品獲得了許多獎項，其中包括古根漢研究獎, 國家藝術成就貢獻獎， 和Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets。他同時也是多部詩集的作者，包括The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer。
John Haines, poet, essayist, and teacher, was born in 1924 in Norfolk, Virginia. After studying painting in Washington D.C. and New York City, he homesteaded, from 1954 to 1969, in Alaska, at Mile 68 Richardson Highway, southeast of Fairbanks. Mr. Haines is the author of numerous collections of poems and critical essays, among which the most recent are Fables and Distances, New and Selected Essays (1996); A Guide to the Four-Chambered Heart (1996); The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer, Collected Poems (1993, expanded paperback edition 1996); and a memoir, The Stars, The Snow, The Fire (1989). A collection of early poems, At the End of This Summer: Poems 1948-54, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 1997.
In addition to two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships for poetry and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship previously granted, Mr. Haines received a Literary Award in 1995 from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and, in 1996, he was the guest lecturer at the Annual Summer Wordsworth Conference in Grasmere, England. Recent academic appointments include those at Ohio University, George Washington University, and University of Cincinnati. He occupied the Chair in Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee in 1993, and, in 1997, he was awarded the annual fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.
He passed away in 2011, at the age of 86.
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