Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star andthe Michigan Library Association. Jim Harrison is a writer with immortalityin him.The ... » 

Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star andthe Michigan Library Association. Jim Harrison is a writer with immortalityin him.The Times London This is Harrisons most robust surefootedand bloodraising poetry collection to date.Booklist Jim Harrisonone ofAmericas most beloved writerscalls his poetry the true bones of my life.Although he is best known as a fiction writer it is as a poet that PublishersWeekly famously called him an untrammeled renegade genius. SavingDaylight Harrisons tenth collection of poetry is his first book of new poemsin a decade. All of Harrisons abundant passions for life are poured intosuites prose poems letterpoems and even lyrics for a mariachi band. Thesubjects and concerns are widerangingfrom the heartrending LivingstonSuite where a boy drowns in the local river and the body is discovered by thepoets wifeto some of the most harrowing political poems of Harrisons career.There is also a cast of creature charactersbears dogs birds fishas well asthe woodlands thickets and occasional cities of Arizona Montana MichiganFrance and Mexico. Imagination is my only possession Harrison once said.And Saving Daylight is an imagination in full exuberant bloom. JimHarrison is the author of over thirty books of poetry fiction and nonfiction.His work has been translated into dozens of languages. Born and raised inMichigan he now lives in Montana and Arizona. «