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"This tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of unpublished 'Last Poems.' Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem 'correspondence' with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a buoyant conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser"--
"[Harrison] equates writing poetry with creating cave paintings or petroglyphs, so intrinsically human is the urge to express the life of the soul, and his poems do make the temporal timeless." -
Booklist,starred review
"This is poetry worth loving, hating, and fighting over." -
New York Times Book Review"It is hard-boiled poetry, some of the best of its kind, and one is not surprised to know that Harrison has written very tough novels? His poetic vision is at the heart of it all." -
Harper's"An untrammeled renegade genius? Here is a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language." -
Publishers Weekly"Harrison's essential honesty is deeply affecting? a moving body of work." -
Library Journal"This brilliant poetry from an essential poet? will speak to you on a multitude of levels." -
Outside Magazine
