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LIMITED EDITION JOHN HAINES BROADSIDES
Limited editions John Haines broadsides, autographed by the author. Proceeds to the John Haines/49 Writers Poetry Fund, to benefit Synergies and other opportunities for Alaska's poets. Donated by Tom Sexton.
John Haines served as Alaska’s first Poet Laureate from 1969-1974. He came to the state in 1947 to homestead near Richardson and paint. After his paints froze, his birth as a poet began. At his death in March 2011 he had published more than a dozen collections of poems and essays and won numerous awards and fellowships. Although he knew Alaska’s trails and moods from years of living above the Tanana, he was more than a regional writer and was held in high regard within and outside of Alaska.
49 Writers is pleased to offer for sale limited editions of broadsides of two early poems that first appeared in Winter News (Wesleyan, 1966).
“On the Road” - from Winter News (1966)
This 11” x 15” broadside was printed by another Alaska poet laureate, Tom Sexton, at Black Spruce Press in 1996. Printed on cream BFK Rives stock with right deckle. Signed by the author.
Prints 5 and 9 of 80
Offered at $149 plus $6 shipping; orders will be shipped by Dec. 10, 2011
On the Road
It is not good to be poor. It is good to listen to the wind,but not when you stand alone on a road at night with all your winter parcels, like a mailbox waiting for a postman who will never arrive.
The wind comes in carloads, and goes by with a rushing of lights and emptiness.
I think only of my home. I have a pair of slippers for a wife whose bare feet are waiting.
There is a light through the trees – it is only a simple place, with two souls strung together by nerves and poverty.
It is not good to be poor – and there are no coins in the wind.
~ John Haines
“Poem of the Forgotten” – from Winter News (1966)
This 10” x 12” broadside was printed by Don Bixler for Raven Magazine in April 1999 when John Haines gave readings from his poetry in Anchorage and Fairbanks. The readings were funded in part by The Alaska Humanities Forum. Printed on ivory with bottom deckle and beaded embossing on right margin. Signed by the author.
Prints 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85,86, 88, and 89 of 100
Offered at $149 plus $6 shipping. Order will be shipped by Dec. 10, 2011.
Poem of the Forgotten
I came to this place, a young man green and lonely.Well quit of the world, I framed a house of moss and timber, called it a home, and sat in the warm evenings singing to myself as a man sings when he knows there is no one to hear.
I made my bed under the shadow of leaves, and awoke in the first snow of autumn, filled with silence.
~ John Haines
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