Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems. His connection to rural landscapes is evident in his free-verse, imagistic poetry, which often explores human and animal drives set against an unforgiving natural world.
Most of his books have been set in the sparsely populated areas he knows well: Northern Michigan, the Sandhills of Nebraska, the Arizona-Mexico border and in the beautiful "Paradise Valley" near Livingston, Mt., where he now lives much of the year. Harrison is a determined "outsider," in all senses.
His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. He has been poetry editor of "The Nation" has also served as the food columnist for the magazines Smart and Esquire. |
