Description
Publishers Weekly called Jim Harrison “an untrammeled renegade genius,” a poet who performed “absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.”
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Jim Harrison,Joseph Bednarik (Editor)
Published: 05/28/2019
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 9781556595288
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 8.50″ L x 5.50″ W
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). His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. As a young poet he co-edited Sumac magazine, with fellow poet Dan Gerber, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, he was elected into the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Regarding his most beloved art-form, he wrote: “Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.” Jim Harrison certainly spoke the language.
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