Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556591497 ISBN 13: 9781556591495

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 2000

"This is poetry worth loving, hating, and fighting over."―The New York Times Book Review

Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America’s best-loved writers―now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling "correspondence" with a dead Russian poet in Letters to Yesenin. Also included is an introduction by Harrison, several previously uncollected poems, and "Geo-Bestiary," a 34-part paean to earthly passions. The Shape of the Journey confirms Jim Harrison’s place among the most brilliant and essential poets writing today.

"Behind the words one always feels the presence of a passionate, exuberant man who is at the same time possessed of a quick, subtle intelligence and a deeply questioning attitude toward life. Harrison writes so winningly that one is simply content to be in the presence of a writer this vital, this large-spirited."―The New York Times Book Review

"(An) untrammelled renegade genius... here’s a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."―Publishers Weekly

"Readers can wander the woods of this collection for a lifetime and still be amazed at what they find."―Booklist (starred review.)

When the cloth edition of this book was first published, it immediately became one of Copper Canyon Press’s all-time bestsellers. It was featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, became a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was selected as one of the "Top-Ten Books of 1998" by Booklist.

Jim Harrison is the author of dozens of books, including Legends of the Fall and In Search of Small Gods. He has also written numerous screenplays and served as the food columnist for Esquire magazine. He lives in Montana and Arizona.

Dead Deer

Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover,
a rotted deer
curled, shaglike,
after a winter so cold
the trees split open.
I think she couldn't keep up with
the others (they had no place
to go) and her food,
frozen grass and twigs,

About the Author:

Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Shape of the Journey. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. In 2007, Mr. Harrison was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.

Review:

"The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds / lay once and rams strutted and Indians left signs of war." (from "Ghazals"). "Jim Harrison is one of the most authentic vocies of his time." -- Denise Levertov

Acting
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After Reading Takahashi
After The Anonymous Swedish
American Girl
Awake
Bear
Birthday
The Brand New Statue Of Liberty
Cabin Poem
Cardinal
The Chatham Ghazal
Clear Water 3
Cobra
Cold August
Complaint
Counting Birds
Cowgirl
Coyote No. 1
Credo, After E.p.
Dancing
The Davenport Lunar Eclipse
David
Dawn Whiskey
Dead Deer
Dogen's Dream
A Domestic Poem For Portia
Drinking Song
Dusk
Epithalamium
Exercise
Fair/boy Christian Takes A Break
February Suite
February Swans
Followers
Four Matrices: 1. Home
Four Matrices: 2. Counting Arizona
Four Matrices: 3. Home
Four Matrices: 4. The Sea
Fox Farm
Frog
Garden
Gathering April
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Going Back
Hello Walls
Hitchhiking
Homily
Horse (1)
Horse (2)
Hospital
The Idea Of Balance Is To Be Found In Herons And Loons
In Interims: Outlyer
John Severin Walgren, 1874-1962
Kinship
Kobun
A Last Ghazal
Legenda
Letters To Yesenin: 1
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Li Ho
Lisle's River
Locations
Looking Forward To Age
Lullaby For A Daughter
Malediction
March Walk
Marriage Ghazal
Missy 1966-1971
Morning
Moving
My First Day As A Painter
My Friend The Bear
Natural World: 1
Natural World: 2
New Love
Night In Boston
Nightmare
Noon
North
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Northern Michigan
Not Writing My Name
Park At Night
Poem
Porpoise
Postscript
A Redolence For Nims
Return
Return To Yesenin
Returning At Night
Returning To Earth
Reverie
Rich Folks, Poor Folks, And Neither
Rooster
The Same Goose Moon
Scrubbing The Floor The Night A Great Lady Died
A Sequence Of Women: 1
A Sequence Of Women: 2
A Sequence Of Women: 3
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The Sign: 1
The Sign: 2
The Sign: 3
Sketch For A Job Application Blank
Small Poem
Sonoran Radio
Sound
Southern Cross
Suite To Appleness: 1
Suite To Appleness: 2
Suite To Appleness: 3
Suite To Fathers: 1
Suite To Fathers: 2
Suite To Fathers: 3
Sullivan Poem
The Theory And Practice Of Rivers
Thin Ice
This Is Cold Salt...
Three Night Songs: 1
Three Night Songs: 2
Three Night Songs: 3
Time Suite
The Times Atlas; For My Mentor, Long Dead, Richard Halliburton
Trader
Traverse City Zoo
Twilight
Waiting
Walking
Walter Of Battersea
War Suite: 1
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Weeping
What He Said When I Was Eleven
White
The Woman From Spiritwood
Word Drunk
A Year's Changes
Young Bull
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®