Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems

I'm smitten by what he has shown me and where he has taken me in his poems. I take them internally as a universal tonic. They arouse the deep sublime within me. He takes me so close to Nature that my face comes back bloody. A panoply of poems that makes one feel pain and danger, terror, power and magnificence. Obscurity, infinity, suddenness. I disappear as the poem unfolds within me.

Jim Harrison is one of this country’s most versatile and poignant writers. From novels, novellas, non fiction to his poetry. His work is perfect. This book is a compilation of some his best poetry. I believe this is the first of a series of reprinted versions of his work. Harrison knew how to live and find the sacred in every. Even the mundane . Buy this book.

A great collection of the late Jim Harrison's poems.

just the best and i will miss him

The essence of his many volumes of poetry and probably all most need

I love this writer and his poems. Fast shipping.

Beautiful and evocative. The author infuses experience with meaning.

Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems is a wonderful collection for both readers familiar with his poetry as well as anyone new to it.I have always considered his poetry to be, over the course of his life, uneven. Part of that is the typical element of time changing both the poet and his approaches. That said, there is far more here of interest, even when some are taken out of the context of the larger initial collections of which they were a part of a larger work. Don't be fooled by blustery "reviewers" and, here is the joke, "critics" who seem to judge entire poems, if not entire oeuvres, on the pithiness of solitary lines taken out of context and form. But in their minds they know best, though those are mighty small minds. Methinks jealousy creeps in on these wannabes, but they have opinions like the rest of us, they just happen to smell a bit more.If you're more familiar with Harrison's prose work you will find a great deal of similarity between the two. Flow and subject matter are fairly consistent between both, even in his essays to a smaller degree.I am hesitant to recommend poetry as sweepingly as I do fiction or nonfiction. People read poetry for so many different reasons. I would recommend finding a few of Harrison's poems and reading them. If they sound like a mindset you'd like to explore, this book would be an excellent next step. Some of his collections really need to be read in their entirety to appreciate, so the next step might be to find those volumes after reading this broader, career-spanning collection.Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.

I knew Harrison as a prose writer, and discovered he was a poet in an episode of Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown". I'm not a big fan of poetry, but Harrison conjures up images and emotions that resonate.

Ok, I adore the poet/writer. Ok, I adore his poems. Ok, I adore quite everything by Jim Harrison. So how is it possible not to have this beautiful last selection of his masterful poetry?

Belle collection de la poésie de Jim Harrison, l'essentiel est là: la sagesse d'assumer la vie, cette voix qui nous manque tant, l'humour et la profondeur, ce langage magique. Le relire souvent fait preuve de sa pérennité, comme pour ses romans. Le derniers des grands? J'espère que non, on en a besoin. Mais certainement nous avons perdu le bijou rare. Sa poésie reste. Elle nous accompagne comme une rivière.

Excellent book