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AWAITING REPRINT;EXPECTED APRIL

Edited by Joseph Bednarik (Copper CanyonPress,hardcover)

Publication Date:December7, 2021

Publisher Marketing: The Complete Poemsby Jim Harrison (1937-2016) is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career and displays his wide range of poetic styles and forms. Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living.The Complete Poemsconfirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or asPublishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius… a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.”