For the century's end : poems, 1990-1999 / John Haines.

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Poem for the End of the Century -- The Legend -- In the Cave at Lone Tree Meadow -- Star Photo -- The Ancestors -- NEAR Travels Far to Find Eros -- NASA Dreams Quietly of Mars -- In the House of Wax -- "Far-sighted into yesterday ..." -- "We enter, adjust to the gloom ..." -- "How easily in the live heat ..." -- "Here is a man, thief or martyr ..." -- "Here, with his tins and furs ..." -- "Nothing we have painted ..." -- "Another room ..." -- "Call those from underneath ..." -- "In all these wax memorials ..." -- "The rooms are large and numerous ..." -- "All is as it must or might be ..." -- "Were we not lost, condemned ..." -- The American Dream -- City of Orphans -- Kent State, May 1970 -- Notes on the Capitalist Persuasion -- Politics and the Dead -- Blood -- The Unemployed, Disabled, and Insane -- It Could Happen Again -- The Last Election -- A Guide to the Four-Chambered Heart -- The Chart -- The Wreck -- The Flowering Plum -- Dead Leaves -- Orpheus -- The Telling -- Wounded Life -- Another Country -- Eclipse -- The Ghost Towns -- Star Struck -- The Ice Child -- Roadside Weeds -- Snow -- For a Young Student -- Days of Slaughter -- To the End.

New poems by the much-honored author of 14 books of poetry & 5 books of essays, now a resident of Missoula, Montana, after living many years in the Alaskan wilderness. This is the first volume in the invitational Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, edited by Linda Bierds.

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