{"product_id":"jim-harrison-the-essential-poems","title":"Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn untrammeled renegade genius... \u003c\/b\u003eHere is a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStarred Review in \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e: \" C]hoices of poems from each of Harrison's books are passionate and sharp... Of special note is a section from \u003ci\u003eLetters to Yesenin\u003c\/i\u003e, a book-length poem, and the title poem from \u003ci\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Rivers \u003c\/i\u003e, which contains these echoing lines, 'I forgot where I heard that poems \/ are designed to waken sleeping gods.' Reading this essential volume, one might imagine that the gods are, indeed, staying up late, reading lights on, turning the pages.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: The Essential Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is distilled from fourteen volumes--from visionary lyrics and meditative suites to shape-shifting ghazals and prose-poem letters. Teeming throughout these pages are Harrison's legendary passions and appetites, his meditations, rages, and love-songs to the natural world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e concluded a review from early in Harrison's career with a provocative quote: \"This is poetry worth loving, hating, and fighting over, a subjective mirror of our American days and needs.\" That sentiment still holds true, as Jim Harrison's essential poems continue to call for our fiercest attention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso included are full-color images of poem drafts--both typescripts and holographs--as well as the letter Denise Levertov sent to publisher W.W. Norton in the early 1960s, advocating for Harrison's debut collection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his essay Poetry as Survival, Jim Harrison wrote, Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is proof positive that Jim Harrison taught his soul to speak. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this unforgiving literary moment, we must deal honestly with  Harrison's] life and work, as they are inextricable in a way that is not true of other poets...These poems bear-crawl gorgeously after a genuine connection to being, thrashing in giant leaps through the underbrush to find consolation, purpose, and redemption. In his raw, original keening he ambushes moments of unimaginable beauty, one after another, line after line...\u003ci\u003eThe Essential Poems\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates perfectly why we should turn to Harrison again. He lived and breathed an American confrontation with the physical earth, married himself to a universe of bodies and stumps and birds, did not try to shuck his grotesque masculinity and stared hard with his o","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328219725924,"sku":"9781556595288","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/jim-harrison-the-essential-poems","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}