Songs of Unreason: Poems

✍ Scribed by Harrison, Jim

• Book ID: 109041101
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 194 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781556593895

✦ Synopsis

#1 Poetry Foundation Bestseller

Michigan Notable Book

"A beautifully mysterious inquiry... Here Harrison--forthright, testy, funny, and profoundly discerning--a gruff romantic and a sage realist, tells tales about himself, from his dangerous obsession with Federico Garcia Lorca to how he touched a bear's head, reflects on his dance with the trickster age, and shares magnetizing visions of dogs, horses, birds, and rivers. Oscillating between drenching experience and intellectual musings, Harrison celebrates movement as the pulse of life, and art, which 'scrubs the soul fresh.'" --Booklist

"Harrison has written a nearly pitch-perfect book of poems, shining with the elemental force of Neruda's Odes or Matisse's paper cutouts....In Songs of Unreason, , his finest book of verse, Harrison has stripped his voice to the bare essentials--to what must be said, and only what must be said." --_The...