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

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tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished Last Poems.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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 12/07/2021
ISBN: 9781556595936
Pages: 944
Weight: 3.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 3.00d

Review Citations: Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 68
Booklist 09/01/2021 pg. 26