false 5516307 1 <p>"Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites-for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of poetry . . . Harrison has become their poet laureate."-Salon.com</p><p>In Jim Harrison's new book of poems, birds and humans converse, biographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just out of sight. In terrains real and imagined-from remote canyons and anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe-Harrison calls his readers to live fully in a world where "Death steals everything except our stories." <i>In Search of Small Gods</i> is an urgent and imaginative book-one filled with "the spore of the gods."</p><p><i>Maybe the problem is that I got involved with the wrong crowd of gods when I was seven. At first they weren't harmful and only showed themselves as fish, birds, especially herons and loons, turtles, a bobcat and a small bear, but not deer and rabbits who only offered themselves as food. And maybe I spent too much time inside the water of lakes and rivers. Underwater seemed like the safest church I could go to . . .</i></p><p><b>Jim Harrison</b> is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including <i>Legends of the Fall</i> and <i>Shape of the Journey</i>. A long-time resident of Michigan, he now lives in Montana and Arizona.</p> 5664668 1 4 2009 In Search of Small Gods total:27|5:12|4:9|3:4|2:1|1:1| 27 111 50 11 5 1 false false Thu Nov 06 04:28:05 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 04:28:32 -0800 2008
by Jim Harrison

A ratty old man, an Ojibwe alcoholic who lived to be eighty-eight and chewed Red Man tobacco as a joke, told me a few years back that time lasted seven times longer than we “white folks” think. This irritated me. We were sitting on the porch of his sh...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 11:34:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 11:49:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 16 02:28:10 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 21 02:26:43 -0700 2009
I don't know if this is his "best" work yet, but what does it matter?
Many many passages are as spirit-haunted and beautiful as any Harrison has ever written. As one reviewer put it some time ago, reading Harrison "is to feel the luminosit...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 20 05:12:39 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 05:17:52 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Aug 23 19:04:25 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 19:05:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 11:59:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 03:56:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 12 18:50:53 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 19:18:11 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 14:45:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:03:41 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 19:47:50 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:41:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 09 15:48:42 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 07:36:28 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 15:48:42 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 19:18:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 19:26:29 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 11:53:15 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 11:53:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 14:00:41 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 14:00:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 06 14:23:30 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 14:23:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Oct 12 19:03:52 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 07:22:26 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 19:03:52 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 10:36:58 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 10:36:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 08 21:53:38 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 21:53:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 31 16:08:25 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 16:08:25 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 07:51:01 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 14:30:33 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:51:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 30 16:30:17 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 16:30:17 -0700 2009