Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America's best-loved writers-now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling "correspondence" with a dead Russian poet in Letters to Yesenin. Also included is an introduction by Harrison, several previously uncollected poems, and "Geo-Bestiary," a 34-part paean to earthly passions. The Shape of the Journey confirms Jim Harrison's place among the most brilliant and essential poets writing today.
"Behind the words one always feels the presence of a passionate, exuberant man who is at the same time possessed of a quick, subtle intelligence and a deeply questioning attitude toward life. Harrison writes so winningly that one is simply content to be in the presence of a writer this vital, this large-spirited."-The New York Times Book Review
"(An) untrammelled renegade genius here's a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."-Publishers Weekly
"Readers can wander the woods of this collection for a lifetime and still be amazed at what they find."-Booklist (starred review.)
When the cloth edition of this book was first published, it immediately became one of Copper Canyon Press's all-time bestsellers. It was featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, became a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was selected as one of the "Top-Ten Books of 1998" by Booklist.
Jim Harrison is the author of twenty books, including Legends of the Fall and The Road Home. He has also written numerous screenplays and served as the food columnist for Esquire magazine. He lives in Michigan and Arizona.
Dead Deer
Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover,
a rotted deer
curled, shaglike,
after a winter so cold
the trees split open.
I think she couldn't keep up with
the others (they had no place
to go) and her food,
frozen grass and twigs,
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Jim Harrison has shaped my life as a writer,
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I first read Jim Harrison's poems almost thirty years ago in the Crawford County library in Grayling when I was at the beginning of a long teaching trail. Harrison saved my life that day and he has almost every day since. I return, almost daily, to his work which serves as a "shock tippet" against the "stuff" of the world. I don't think anyone comes close to his ability to chronicle the spirit of the natural world...the language he speaks comes from the most secret of places.
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"I have decided to make up my mind about nothing, to assume the water mask, to finish my life disguised as a creek,.."-from Cabin Poem. I met Jim Harrison once in New York. He and Russell Chatham signed the books I had collected by Harrison. My first thought was how could this gruff large loud man with one glass eye write such moving literature and poetry? How could he write with such realism and romance and with such deep spirituality and beauty? How does he know these things? I realised in the same moment that others must have felt the same about Hemingway. We have genius among us.
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Even better than the novels.,
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As much as I love Jim Harrison's novels, especially his most recent, The Road Home, his poetry is dearer to my heart. It's magnificent. There are only a handful of American poets who are dealing with real life as it is lived in our time,in a way that is accessible but still intellectually and emotionally challenging. Harrison is one of those poets. He's a powerhouse! Copper Canyon's beautiful collection is way overdue.
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- The Woman Lit by Fireflies by Jim Harrison in Back Matter
- A Good Day to Die by Jim Harrison in Back Matter
- The Road Home by Jim Harrison in Back Matter
- Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison in Back Matter
- Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison in Back Matter
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- Conversations with Jim Harrison (Literary Conversations) by Robert Demott in Front Matter, and page 195
- Off to the Side: A Memoir by Jim Harrison in Front Matter
- Steal Away: Selected and New Poems by C.D. Wright in Back Matter
- True North by Jim Harrison in Front Matter
- The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison in Front Matter
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