A companion to the single volume, this box set is limited to 750 copies.
Starred Review from Booklist: "[A] landmark collection."
Jim Harrison (1937-2016) is an American literary icon, famous for his novellas
Legends of the Fall and
Brown Dog,and his novels
Dalva, Farmer, and
Sundog. At the bedrock of Harrison’s success was his lifelong, enduring love of poetry. Over a fifty year writing career, in addition to his prolific work as a fiction writer, screenwriter, and beloved food critic, he published fourteen volumes of original poetry—now presented in this three-volume set.
Jim Harrison: Complete Poems: Limited Edition Box Set features the entirety of Harrison’s poetic oeuvre in handsome hardbacks, organized by distinct eras. Print run release limited to 750 copies.
This tour de force also features a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay by a major literary figure for each volume:
- Colum McCann, Vol. I
- Joy Williams, Vol II
- John Freeman, Vol III
Woven throughout these three volumes are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to
pay attention.As Joy Williams notes in her essay to Volume II: “I’ve always loved Jim Harrison’s poetry—so full of itself, so direct and hungry and angered and awed. I think of him in many ways as a religious poet...he felt that only in poetry had he found ‘the right pen’ to write what he wanted to say.”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was the author of over three dozen books, including
Legends of the Falland
Dalva, and served as the food columnist for the magazines
Brickand
Esquire.He also published fourteen volumes of original poetry. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. As a young poet he co-edited
Sumac magazine with fellow poet Dan Gerber, and earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2007, he was elected into the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Regarding his most beloved art form, he wrote: “Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.” Jim Harrison certainly spoke the language.
Colum McCann is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he has been the recipient of many international honours, including the National Book Award, the International Dublin Impac Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government, election to the Irish arts academy, and an Oscar nomination. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts. His work has been published in over forty languages. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organization, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College and lives in New York City.
Joy Williams is the author of four novels, five short story collections, a book of essays, and a travelogue about Key West. A "Vintage Contemporaries" author, she’s been been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
John Freeman is the Executive Editor at Knopf and founder of the journal
Freeman's. He is the author of three books of nonfiction, two books of poetry,
Maps and
The Park, and also edited a series of anthologies about inequality, He lives in New York City.
Joseph Bednarik is the Co-Publisher at Copper Canyon Press. He is the editor of
Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems,
The Sumac Reader, and co-editor of
One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader.
