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Name: In Search of Small Gods

Author: Jim Harrison
Year: 2009
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Poetry, Award winners

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ISBNs:
9781556593192
9781556593000
1556593198
1556593007

"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
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."
is an urgent and imaginative book - one filled with "the spore of the gods."
is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including
and
. A long-time resident of Michigan, he now lives in Montana and Arizona.