Haining (zh:海宁市) is a city in Zhejiang province in China. It has a population of over 100,000 people. Haining is famous for its leather industry and spectacular tide in the QianTang River. Zhejiang (also spelled Chehkiang or Chekiang) is an eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Haines may have lost the Catholicism of his childhood, but its vision of spiritual self-realization remained a guiding force in his adult life.
Haines' poetry is rooted in the singular existence he chose.
If Haines has chosen the North as the region of his poetry, it is not only a specific geographical area, but also the spiritual wilderness where the solitary imagination must confront existence without the comforting illusions of society.