#1 on the Poetry Foundation Bestseller List; a Michigan Notable Book;
a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
A beautifully mysterious inquiry.--Booklist
Songs of Unreason, Harrison's latest collection of poetry, is a
wonderful defense of the possibilities of living.--The Industrial
Worker Book Review
As in all good poetry, Harrison's lines linger to be ruminated upon a
third or fourth time, with each new reading revealing more substance and
raising more questions.--Library Journal
Jim Harrison's compelling and provocative Songs of Unreason explores
what it means to inhabit the world in atavistic, primitive, and
totemistic ways. This can be disturbing to the learned, Harrison admits.
Using interconnected suites, brief lyrics, and rollicking narratives,
Harrison's passions and concerns--creeks, thickets, time's
effervescence, familiar love--emerge by turns painful and celebratory,
localized and exiled.
From Suite to Unreason:
Where's my medicine bag? It's either hiddenor doesn't exist. Inside are
memories of earth: corn pollen, a bear claw, an umbilical cord. If they
exist they help me ride the darkheavens of this life. Such fragile
wings.
Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books, including Legends of
the Fall and River Swimmer, and has served as the food columnist for
Esquire. Harrison divides his time between Montana and southern
Arizona.
