Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press (2006)

Limited Edition. Signed.

One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Bound in burgundy and brown cloth. Fine.


Saving Daylight, Harrison's tenth collection of poetry, is his first book of new poems in a decade. All of Harrison's abundant passions for life are poured into suites, prose poems, letter-poems, and even lyrics for a mariachi band.

The subjects and concerns are wide-ranging-from the heart-rending Livingston Suite, where a boy drowns in the local river and the body is discovered by the poet's wife-to some of the most harrowing political poems of Harrison's career. There is also a cast of creature characters-bears, dogs, birds, fish-as well as the woodlands, thickets, and occasional cities of Arizona, Montana, Michigan, France, and Mexico. Imagination is my only possession, Harrison once said. And Saving Daylight is an imagination in full, exuberant bloom.