Jim Harrison: Complete Poems Hardcover – December 7, 2021 by Jim Harrison

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Author: Harrison Jim

Package Dimensions: 76x239x1474

Number Of Pages: 944

Release Date: 07-12-2021

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Starred Reviews for Jim Harrison: Complete Poems in Library Journal and Booklist:

“This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet’s work… [a] landmark collection.”―
Booklist, starred review

“In a collection that spans decades of living and writing, there are poems of every character, many of them superb.”―
Library Journal, starred review

“This densely rich book, which places Harrison among the pantheon of our best American poets, will make readers wish in the coming years that he could still send more poems and missives from that barefoot heaven.” ―
New York Journal of Books

“That’s what makes his poetry so intimate: the sense that it comes to us without filter, without the expectations or necessity of narrative. It is why I will always think of Harrison, most of all, as a poet.”―David Ulin,
Alta

From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: “Jim Harrison…was among the great ones―an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. ‘Such a powerful wounded poet―wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,’ said Jorie Graham.”

Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished “Last Poems.” Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living.
Jim Harrison: Complete Poems confirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as
Publishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius… a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.”

NOTE:
Jim Harrison: Complete Poems also appears as a three-volume box set. Print run limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. The box set retails for $85 and ISBN is 9781556596414.

Review

“[Harrison] equates writing poetry with creating cave paintings or petroglyphs, so intrinsically human is the urge to express the life of the soul, and his poems do make the temporal timeless.” ―
Booklist,starred review

“This is poetry worth loving, hating, and fighting over.” ―
New York Times Book Review

“It is hard-boiled poetry, some of the best of its kind, and one is not surprised to know that Harrison has written very tough novels… His poetic vision is at the heart of it all.” ―
Harper’s

“An untrammeled renegade genius… Here is a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.” ―
Publishers Weekly

“Harrison’s essential honesty is deeply affecting… a moving body of work.” ―
Library Journal

“This brilliant poetry from an essential poet… will speak to you on a multitude of levels.” ―
Outside Magazine

About the Author

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was the author of over three dozen books, including
Legends of the Fall and
Dalva, and served as the food columnist for the magazines
Brick and
Esquire. He published fourteen volumes of poetry, the final being
Dead Man’s Float (2016), which appeared a few months before his death. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. As a young poet he co-