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9781556595288: Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems
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Editorial: Copper Canyon Press, 2019

Sinopsis

Publishers Weekly called Jim Harrison "an untrammeled renegade genius," a poet who performed "absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."

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Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was the author of over three dozen books, including Legends of the Fall and Dalva, and served as the food columnist for the magazines Brick and Esquire. He published fourteen volumes of poetry, the final being Dead Man's Float (2016). His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. As a young poet he co-edited Sumac magazine, with fellow poet Dan Gerber, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, he was elected into the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Regarding his most beloved art-form, he wrote: "Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak." Jim Harrison certainly spoke the language.

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Editorial
Copper Canyon Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
155659528X
ISBN 13 
9781556595288
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Número de páginas
256
Editor
Bednarik Joseph
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