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That's as good a definition of contemporary poetry as any.\"—NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book reads like a long, breathless thank you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The reader's mind shoots through [Young's poems] like the steel ball in a pinball machine, dinging around, racking up points. Dean's poems are amazingly fun.\"—\u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBender\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the abundant treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by Surrealism, Young's poems flash with extravagant imagery, humorous speech, sly views of the quotidian, mercurial hip-shake shifts, and exposed nerves of heartache.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Commencement Address\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI love you for shattering.\u003cbr\u003eSomeone has to. 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[Poetry's] greatest flowering was in the T'ang and Sung, when suddenly it was everywhere: in the palace, in the street, in every household, every inn, every monastery, in every village square.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Chiupu River Song\" by Li Pai\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy white hair extends three miles\u003cbr\u003ethe sorrow of parting made it this long\u003cbr\u003ewho would guess to look in a mirror\u003cbr\u003ewhere autumn frost comes from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This valuable text will help us appreciate the richness of poetic imagination and experience.\"—\u003ci\u003eBook Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e five-star review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003ePoems of the Masters\u003c\/i\u003e] includes the Chinese originals, along with commentaries on imagery, various social conventions, historical background—all absolutely essential to a full appreciation of the texts... the best way to approach them is to pick one out and let it drop like a pebble into the well of your mind and hear how it resonates.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in this remarkable anthology speak to us—across an immense distance of time and space—of loneliness, beauty, the consequences of political action, the stillness of autumn. 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[\u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is] a massive and bounteous body of work that would have made Harrison a significant American writer even if he had never published in any other genre.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In a collection that spans decades of living and writing, there are poems of every character, many of them superb.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This densely rich book...places Harrison among the pantheon of our best American poets.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 and was surprised that he was excluded from Harold Bloom's anthology \u003ci\u003eAmerican Religious Poems.\u003c\/i\u003e It seemed quite the oversight.\"—Joy Williams, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That’s what makes his poetry so intimate: the sense that it comes to us without filter, without the expectations or necessity of narrative. It is why I will always think of Harrison, most of all, as a poet.\"—David Ulin, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When [\u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e] arrives in the mail I stare at it for a time a little dumbfounded. It is gorgeous and it is massive…. The next day I carried it north with me to the Flathead Indian Reservation. I am teaching poetry to fourth- and fifth graders there. At the beginning of each of four classes I held the book up for everyone to see. We passed it around so everyone could feel its heft, see the photo on the back cover of the grizzled poet, his eyes turned down, drawing on the ubiquitous cigarette. I described it as a physical representation of a life devoted to poetry and how wonderful that is. I was asked how long it will take me to read the whole thing. ‘A lifetime,’ I answer.”—Chris La Tray, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missoulian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Harrison described his own work as ‘(c)rude, holy, natural, political, sexual,’ and page after page here he hits those notes time and again.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The publication of the \u003ci\u003e Jim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e will be the major poetic event of the season.\"— Paul Yamazaki, \u003cb\u003eCity Lights Booksellers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jim Harrison’s poems have a vitality, range, and revelation equal in importance to the more widely known fiction. A pitch-perfect field guide, Harrison scouts with full sense of kinship and acrobatic powers of both language and imagination his life’s landscapes, events, and fellow creatures. His direct, chiselled statements of thought, feeling, and invention make the world bigger in every dimension.”— Jane Hirshfield, \u003cb\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\"Some of the poems are funny, some are serious, and many are bawdy, but none will disappoint a reader.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eBill Castanier, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLansing City Pulse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\"To say that Harrison’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; font-style: italic;\"\u003eComplete Poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e is Shakespearian in scope is probably an exaggeration, but only a little. Harrison certainly had far more time than the Bard to devote to his literary endeavors. . . . There is no denying the power and influence of his ghazals of the early 1970s, and if his voracious appetite for experience offends some readers, it’s clear he was one of the major poets of the last six decades, someone who believed “'in the Resurrection mostly \/ because he was never taught how not to.'\"—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalifornia Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams:\u003c\/b\u003e  \"Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. 'Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,' said Jorie Graham.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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, as well as a section of previously unpublished \"Last Poems.\" 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving throughout nearly 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. \u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: Complete Poems \u003c\/i\u003econfirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e called him, “an untrammeled renegade genius… a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Heart's Work: Jim Harrison's Poetic Legacy\u003c\/b\u003e: The Heart's Work is a multi-book, multi-year publishing project by Copper Canyon Press to secure and advance Jim Harrison's poetic legacy. To date, books published as part of the The Heart's Work include \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollected Ghazals \u003c\/i\u003e(with afterword by Denver Butson), \u003ci\u003eJim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (produced as both a single volume and a three-volume box set, with introductions by Terry Tempest Williams, Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman), and the paperback printing of \u003ci\u003eDead Man's Float\u003c\/i\u003e. New projects forthcoming!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLimited Edition Box Set:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e  Jim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e also appears as a three-volume box set. (The ISBN for the box set is 9781556596414.)  Print run was limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. As of March 2022, the box set is sold out and has been listed out-of-print. Copies may be available from the publisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst Edition Points:\u003c\/b\u003e Please note that there is no indication of first edition on the copyright page of the single volume of \u003ci\u003e Jim Harrison: Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e . 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