Jim Harrison: Complete Poems: Limited Edition Boxed Set (Boxed Set)

Description

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A companion to the single volume, this box set is limited to 750 copies.

Starred Review from Booklist: A] landmark collection.

Jim Harrison (1937-2016) is an American literary icon, famous for his novellas Legends of the Fall and Brown Dog, and his novels Dalva, Farmer, and Sundog. At the bedrock of Harrison's success was his lifelong, enduring love of poetry. Over a fifty year writing career, in addition to his prolific work as a fiction writer, screenwriter, and beloved food critic, he published fourteen volumes of original poetry--now presented in this three-volume set.

Jim Harrison: Complete Poems: Limited Edition Box Set features the entirety of Harrison's poetic oeuvre in handsome hardbacks, organized by distinct eras. Print run release limited to 750 copies.

This tour de force also features a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay by a major literary figure for each volume:

• Colum McCann, Vol. I
• Joy Williams, Vol II
• John Freeman, Vol III

Woven throughout these three volumes are Harrison's legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention.As Joy Williams notes in her essay to Volume II: "I've always loved Jim Harrison's poetry--so full of itself, so direct and hungry and angered and awed. I think of him in many ways as a religious poet...he felt that only in poetry had he found 'the right pen' to write what he wanted to say.

About the Author

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Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was the author of over three dozen books, including Legends of the Fall and Dalva, and served as the food columnist for the magazines Brick and Esquire. He published fourteen volumes of poetry, the final being Dead Man's Float (2016), which appeared a few months before his death. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. As a young poet he co-edited Sumac magazine with fellow poet Dan Gerber, and earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2007, he was elected into the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Regarding his most beloved art form, he wrote: "Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak." Jim Harrison certainly spoke the language.