In Search of Small Gods
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556593007 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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He divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.. In 2007, Mr. Harrison was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Shape of the Journey
At first they weren’t harmful and only showed themselves as fish, birds, especially herons and loons, turtles, a bobcat and a small bear, but not deer and rabbits who only offered themselves as food. In terrains real and imagined—from remote canyons and anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe—Harrison calls his readers to live fully in a world where “Death steals everything except our stories.” In Search of Small Gods is an urgent and imaginative book—one filled with “the spore of the gods.”Maybe the problem is that I got involved with the wrong crowd of gods when I was seven. And maybe I spent too much time inside th
(Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This 12th book of verse gives familiar, quotable rural pleasures—solitude, ease, forests and big skies—along with a new focus on the poet's advancing years. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Harrison (Legends of the Fall) has over decades won a durable following for verse and fiction about the wild places, solitudes and the exhilarations of the American West. . (Mexican places and people, unfortunately, do not: they are leaden stereotypes.) People, for Harrison, are beasts as well, marine organisms at the bottom of the ocean/ of air. I keep waiting without knowing/ what I'm waiting for, Harrison says in Age Sixty-Nine; in that waiting, he adds, on local earth my heart/ is at rest as a groundling. Barking brings the poet closer to the canine kingdom still: I was a dog on a short chain,
Kodiak B. said Who but Harrison has poems in Playboy and Earth First! Journal. When you read this brilliant book, don't ignore the acknowledgements section. (Yes, I even read the copyright page) What you'll discover is that poems from this book have been published in a dizzying range of publications, including the canonical "Poetry," the radical "Earth First! Journal," Garrison Keillor's folksy "Writer's Almanac," and the needs-no-introduction "Playboy." These publications suggest many of Harrison's themes: art, nature, the joys of physical bodies rubbing against each other (or not!), not to mention the intention of the title: the active search for small gods. For Harrison, the small gods--and the evid. "A Quintessential American Poet" according to Nicholas Trandahl. The late Harrison is, as always, the quintessential American poet. The simplicity of Hemingway dances with the roughness of Raymond Carver and the childlike wonder of Mary Oliver. Jim Harrison was a true master and has become one of my most evident inspirations and favorite writers.. Wholly Original Original, surprising language and point(s) of view.