Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon (May 28 2019)

First Edition. Paperback Original.

New.

Publishers Weekly called Jim Harrison “an untrammeled renegade genius,” a poet who performed “absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.”

The Essential Poems of Jim Harrison is distilled from nearly 1,000 poems that appeared in 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. The New York Times 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.