Saving Daylight: Poems

✍ Scribed by Harrison, Jim

• Book ID: 109040877
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 190 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association.

"Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."--The Times (London)

"This is [Harrison's] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date."--Booklist

Jim Harrison--one of America's most beloved writers--calls his poetry "the true bones of my life." Although he is best known as a fiction writer, it is as a poet that Publishers Weekly famously called him an "untrammeled renegade genius."

Saving Daylight , Harrison's tenth collection of poetry, is his first book of new poems in a decade. All of Harrison's abundant passions for life are poured into suites, prose poems, letter-poems, and even lyrics for a mariachi band.

The subjects and concerns are wide-ranging--from the heart-rending...