Pleasure and mortality are the twin themes of Harrison’s mammoth “Complete Poems,” spanning his career from his 1965 debut to his 2016 death. By Troy Jollimore Jim Harrison’s appetite was legendary.
Back in the mid-'70s, when my "office" was the Minneapolis Central Library, I noticed a novel on display — "Farmer," by Jim Harrison. I was attracted because the setting was Michigan, a rare novel of ...
Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was once so struck by a photo of the model Lauren Hutton, captured in a state of undress while reading Ezra Pound’s “ABC of Reading,” that he wrote her a letter. He admits to ...
“The Search for the Genuine,” a posthumous collection of nonfiction from writer Jim Harrison, allows the writer to continue to speak, using his own words to define his legacy. In his lifetime, ...
Jim Harrison, who died on March 26 th, 2016 at the age of 78, was one of those figures people call “larger than life.” A novelist, essayist, poet, screenplay writer and master of the novella, Harrison ...