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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 Richardsonand 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 theTanana, 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 an early poem that first appeared in Winter News (Wesleyan, 1966).

“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 Anchorageand 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 $50

 

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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