{"title":"Jim Harrison","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim Harrison (1937–2016) was born in Grayling, Michigan, and became one of the most versatile and beloved American writers of his generation, working across poetry, fiction, essay, and screenwriting. His poetry is rooted in landscape — the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Montana, Arizona — and in an earthy, vital engagement with appetite, mortality, and the non-human world. His novella collections, including \u003cem\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), brought him wide public readership. His poetry collections include \u003cem\u003ePlain Song\u003c\/em\u003e (1965) and the massive \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon, 2017). He received the Spirit of the West Award and the Mark Twain Award. His long poem series \u003cem\u003eLetters to Yesenin\u003c\/em\u003e (1973) is among his most celebrated achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"braided-creek-a-conversation-in-poetry-expanded-anniversary-edition","title":"Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry: Expanded Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn her loving Foreword to this expanded anniversary edition, Naomi Shihab Nye writes \"\u003ci\u003eBraided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the dearest, most appealing books ever published. These poems are tiny delicious American haiku affectionately exchanged between two friends... This slim volume acts as a palate-cleanser, a spirit-booster, a little rocket-ship of wonders.\"\u003c\/b\u003eWhile Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison were an unlikely pair to become friends, they shared an intimate correspondence of handwritten letters that often included new poems. After Kooser was diagnosed with cancer, Harrison sensed his friend's poetry becoming \"overwhelmingly vivid,\" and their friendship deepened through the exchange of brief poems that captured \"the essence of what [they] wanted to say to each other.\" After hundreds of poems were sent back and forth through the mail, they found this volume hidden within the stacks of envelopes and postcards.In her loving Foreword to this expanded anniversary edition, Naomi Shihab Nye writes \"\u003ci\u003eBraided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the dearest, most appealing books ever published. These poems are tiny delicious American haiku affectionately exchanged between two friends... This slim volume acts as a palate-cleanser, a spirit-booster, a little rocket-ship of wonders.\"Wise, wry, and penetrating, these epigrammatic, aphoristic poems explore love and friendship, pausing to celebrate the natural world, aging, everyday things and scenes, and poetry itself. This expanded edition includes a dozen new poems, and when asked why none of the poems have attributions, one of the co-authors replied, \"This book is an assertion in favor of poetry and against credentials.\"","brand":"Ted KooserJim Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793300848682,"sku":"9781556596797","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/braided-creek-a-conversation-in-poetry-expanded-anniversary-edition-9168177.jpg?v=1762151370"},{"product_id":"in-search-of-small-gods","title":"In Search of Small Gods","description":"Named a \"Top Ten Bestseller\" by the Poetry Foundation and \"highly recommended\" in \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's starred review. 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[a] landmark collection.\"-Raul Niño, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[E]ven the readers who know him may not know that Harrison began as a poet and remained one for the rest of his life.... [\u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is] a massive and bounteous body of work that would have made Harrison a significant American writer even if he had never published in any other genre.\"-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In a collection that spans decades of living and writing, there are poems of every character, many of them superb.\"-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This densely rich book...places Harrison among the pantheon of our best American poets.\" -\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I've always loved Jim Harrison's poetry-so full of itself, so direct and hungry and angered and awed. I think of him in many ways as a religious poet and was surprised that he was excluded from Harold Bloom's anthology \u003ci\u003eAmerican Religious Poems.\u003c\/i\u003e It seemed quite the oversight.\"-Joy Williams, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"When [\u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e] arrives in the mail I stare at it for a time a little dumbfounded. It is gorgeous and it is massive.... The next day I carried it north with me to the Flathead Indian Reservation. I am teaching poetry to fourth- and fifth graders there. At the beginning of each of four classes I held the book up for everyone to see. We passed it around so everyone could feel its heft, see the photo on the back cover of the grizzled poet, his eyes turned down, drawing on the ubiquitous cigarette. I described it as a physical representation of a life devoted to poetry and how wonderful that is. I was asked how long it will take me to read the whole thing. 'A lifetime, ' I answer.\"-Chris La Tray, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missoulian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Harrison described his own work as '(c)rude, holy, natural, political, sexual, ' and page after page here he hits those notes time and again.\"-\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The publication of the \u003ci\u003e Jim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e will be the major poetic event of the season.\"- Paul Yamazaki, \u003cb\u003eCity Lights Booksellers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jim Harrison's poems have a vitality, range, and revelation equal in importance to the more widely known fiction. A pitch-perfect field guide, Harrison scouts with full sense of kinship and acrobatic powers of both language and imagination his life's landscapes, events, and fellow creatures. His direct, chiselled statements of thought, feeling, and invention make the world bigger in every dimension.\"- Jane Hirshfield, \u003cb\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some of the poems are funny, some are serious, and many are bawdy, but none will disappoint a reader.\" -Bill Castanier, \u003cb\u003eLansing City Pulse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To say that Harrison's Complete Poems is Shakespearian in scope is probably an exaggeration, but only a little. 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Using interconnected suites, brief lyrics, and rollicking narratives, Harrison's passions and concerns--creeks, thickets, time's effervescence, familiar love--emerge by turns painful and celebratory, localized and exiled.","brand":"Jim Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793301438506,"sku":"9781556593901","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/songs-of-unreason-1577455.jpg?v=1762151313"},{"product_id":"theory-and-practice-of-rivers","title":"Theory and Practice of Rivers","description":"\u003cb\u003eJim Harrison's \u003ci\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e returns to print as a celebratory, stand-alone volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both an elegy, inspired by the death of Harrison's teenage niece, and a \"loose memoir\" teeming with thoughts and images that leap intuitively across subjects, recalling myriad experiences, places, and encounters. 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