Research Catalog

Title

Dead man's float / Jim Harrison.

Author

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016

Publication

• Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

ix, 107 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"His poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life."--The Texas Observer"Harrison doesn't write like anyone else, relying entirely on the toughness of his vision and intensity of feeling."--Publishers Weekly"Harrison's essential honesty is deeply affecting."--Library JournalThe title Dead Man's Float is inspired by a technique used by swimmers to conserve energy when exhausted, to rest up for the long swim to shore. In his fourteenth volume of poetry, Jim Harrison presents keen awareness of physical pains, delights in the natural world, and reflects on humanity's tentative place in a universe filled with ninety billion galaxies. By turns mournful and celebratory, these fearless and exuberant poems accomplish what Harrison's poems always do: wake us up to the possibilities of being fully alive. WarblerThis year we have two gorgeous yellow warblers nesting in the honeysuckle bush. The other day I stuck my head in the bush. The nestlings weigh one twentieth of an ounce, about the size of a honeybee. We stared at each other, startled by our existence. In a month or so, when they reach the size of bumblebees they'll fly to Costa Rica without a map. Jim Harrison, one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers, is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction--including Legends of the Fall, the acclaimed trilogy of novellas. With a fondness for open space and anonymous thickets, he divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona"--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Poetry
• POETRY > American > General
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

Where is Jim Harrison? -- Hospital -- Birds -- Solstice Litany -- Another country -- Zona -- Seven in the woods -- Easter again -- The present -- Soul -- Thunder -- Reverse prayer -- A ballad of love and death about Elsa -- Molly and the brave -- Report from Valencia -- Wood and War -- Sticking to it -- Warmth -- Cow -- Seventy-Four -- Old man -- Risen -- NYC -- A variation on Machado -- Vows -- Purple -- Spirit -- Wolves of Heaven -- Lost medicine -- Private diamonds -- Lazuli trance -- Mountain travel -- God's mouth -- Junk pile -- Carpe diem -- Marriage -- Round -- Dead man's float -- Barebacked writer -- Feeder -- The girls of winter -- Weeks -- Time again (2) -- Time -- Tethered -- Riding the wolf's nose -- Whimsy -- The green man -- Incidentals -- Pain (2) -- Man dog -- The dog and tobacco room -- Notes on the sacred art of log sitting -- The future (2) -- Lorca again -- Winter creek --February -- December butterflies -- Pool of light -- Poetry now -- Criticism -- Money -- Bird nightmares -- He dog -- Tree coroner -- Books -- Patagonia AZ -- Melrose (2) -- Dark -- Sunday -- Cattle nap -- Life -- Universe -- Herring -- Things unseen -- Cigarette -- Nuthatch girl -- Big issues -- Apple -- Sundial -- Winter, Spring -- April -- Tiny bird -- Apple tree -- Galactic -- The river -- Daylight -- Warbler -- The final list -- A dog in heaven -- Quarantine -- Moon suite -- Bridge.

Call Number

JFE 16-842

ISBN

• 9781556594458
• 1556594453

LCCN

2015017095

OCLC

904968510

Author

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016, author.

Title

Dead man's float / Jim Harrison.

Publisher

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFE 16-842