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Title: The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems by Jim Harrison ISBN: 1-55659-095-4 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Browsable, rather than readable.
Comment: Jim Harrison, The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon, 1998)
Jim Harrison is a good poet. He's been below the radar for many, many years, writing poems about nature and drinking and general irascibility that few people have actually read. Which is a shame, because when he's really on his game, his work is comparable to that of the best nature poets working today (Hayden Carruth being the obvious parallel here). And more often than not, he is on his game in this book.
Its major flaw is not the quality of the work therein, but the quantity. Even Bukowski, the most readable poet on the planet in the twentieth century, knew that stopping at about three hundred fifty pages of work was a good idea. Harrison's doughty tome weighs in at over four hundred fifty, and his stuff is not nearly as readable as Bukowski's. Nor is it as short. Even Carruth, whose Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 (also released by Copper Canyon) is one of the few books that is the exception to this rule (over seven hundred pages, and every one a gem), took all the long poems and placed them in a separate, smaller volume. Harrison, on the other hand, mixes with glee. You get a ten-line ghazal on one page, then a thirty-page longpoem following. The effect is somewhat jarring at times.
It's worth reading, but be prepared to linger over it for months, perhaps years. There's too much going on here to just take it out of the library. ***
Rating: 5
Summary: LIKE WALKING THROUGH A BEAUTIFUL FOREST
Comment: Author Jim Harrison says, "this book is the portion of my life that means the most to me". His poems vividly reflect the truth of his words. He writes about himself, his journey through life in outrageous and brilliant language weaving images of nature and earthly passions. Pause, and wander through the forests of this collection. It is lovely, lyrical and passionately beautiful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cabin Poem
Comment: "I have decided to make up my mind about nothing, to assume the water mask, to finish my life disguised as a creek,.."-from Cabin Poem. I met Jim Harrison once in New York. He and Russell Chatham signed the books I had collected by Harrison. My first thought was how could this gruff large loud man with one glass eye write such moving literature and poetry? How could he write with such realism and romance and with such deep spirituality and beauty? How does he know these things? I realised in the same moment that others must have felt the same about Hemingway. We have genius among us.
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Title: Just Before Dark by Jim Harrison ISBN: 061800193X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Road Home by Jim Harrison ISBN: 0671778331 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Wolf : A False Memoir by Jim Harrison ISBN: 0385291604 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 15 April, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser ISBN: 155659187X Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Off to the Side: A Memoir by Jim Harrison ISBN: 0802140300 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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