Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from _The Kansas City
Star_ and the Michigan Library Association.
“Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—_The Times_
(London)
“This is [Harrison’s] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising
poetry collection to date.”—_Booklist_
Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his
poetry “the true bones of my life.” Although he is best known as a
fiction writer, it is as a poet that _Publishers Weekly_ famously
called him an “untrammeled renegade genius.”
_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.
JIM HARRISON is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction,
and nonfiction. His work has been translated into dozens of languages.
Born and raised in Michigan, he now lives in Montana and Arizona.
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ISBN
9781619320475
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Copper Canyon Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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