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Stranger to the Beautiful
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.00
ISBN13: 9780974164830
Publisher: Slender Arrow Press
Published: Mar 1 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
To read Don Hynes is to encounter a voice that has become synonymous with the spirit of the Pacific Northwest. While many poets pass through these moss-draped forests and rugged coastlines, few have inhabited them with the sustained, soulful attention that Don has offered over the course of five volumes-from Slender Arrow to Something Will Change Me-and decades of weekly devotion in his Poet's Journal. He stands today as a primary architect of our regional consciousness, a poet whose work does not merely describe our landscape but emerges from it as a vital sky map for the inner life.
Don's lineage is one of deep presence and structural integrity. He belongs to that rare class of poets who understand that the weight of winter is far more than a season; it is a profound metaphorical state of the world. In these pages, winter is the dark chamber of the human collective, a repository of error and careless words where we must learn to excavate joy even when the dawns are wet and gray. His poems carry the weight of a man who spent a career building physical foundations for the community and now, in these autumn years, builds the spiritual scaffolding we need to withstand the cold.
In Stranger to the Beautiful, we see a master at the height of his powers, one who has allowed the wildness of existence to drive out arrogance. He is our witness on the yearning shore, reminding us that even when the world feels shrouded in desperate folly, we are not lost. He teaches us a way of communion that requires no chanting or spells-only one simple yes to the wonders that persist despite the darkness.
Don Hynes is more than a poet of our generation; he is a keeper of the hidden stone, the birthplace of beauty. He reminds us that even as the cultural landscape seems to descend, we have the stars in flight to guide us. He proves, through every carefully chosen word, that we are children of the eternal, and that even in the deepest frost of the soul, we are good.
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