Dead man's float
(2016)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Copper Canyon Press : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781619321489 (electronic bk.) MWT11859476, 1619321483 (electronic bk.) 11859476
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The title Dead Man's Float is inspired by a technique used by swimmers to conserve energy when exhausted, to rest up for the long swim to shore. In his fourteenth volume of poetry, Jim Harrison presents keen awareness of physical pains, delights in the natural world, and reflects on humanity's tentative place in a universe filled with ninety billion galaxies. By turns mournful and celebratory, these fearless and exuberant poems accomplish what Harrison's poems always do: wake us up to the possibilities of being fully alive
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