Songs of Unreason - by Jim Harrison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of America's leading novelists and poets, Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him (<i>The Sunday Times</i>).<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>#1 on the Poetry Foundation Bestseller List; a Michigan Notable Book; a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.</b></p><p>A beautifully mysterious inquiry.--<i>Booklist</i></p><p><i>Songs of Unreason</i>, Harrison's latest collection of poetry, is a wonderful defense of the possibilities of living.--<i>The Industrial Worker Book Review</i></p><p>As in all good poetry, Harrison's lines linger to be ruminated upon a third or fourth time, with each new reading revealing more substance and raising more questions.--<i>Library Journal</i></p><p>Jim Harrison's compelling and provocative <i>Songs of Unreason</i> explores what it means to inhabit the world in atavistic, primitive, and totemistic ways. This can be disturbing to the learned, Harrison admits. Using interconnected suites, brief lyrics, and rollicking narratives, Harrison's passions and concerns--creeks, thickets, time's effervescence, familiar love--emerge by turns painful and celebratory, localized and exiled.</p><p><b>From Suite to Unreason: </b></p><p>Where's my medicine bag? It's either hiddenor doesn't exist. Inside are memories of earth: corn pollen, a bear claw, an umbilical cord. If they exist they help me ride the darkheavens of this life. Such fragile wings.</p><p><b>Jim Harrison</b> is the author of thirty books, including <i>Legends of the Fall</i> and <i>River Swimmer</i>, and has served as the food columnist for <i>Esquire</i>. Harrison divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jim Harrison: Jim Harrison, one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers, is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction--including <i>Legends of the Fall, </i> the acclaimed trilogy of novellas, and <i>The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems.</i> His books have been translated into two dozen languages, and in 2007 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With a fondness for open space and anonymous thickets, he divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona. <p/>
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