Editors Choice Selection The New York Times Book Review Starred Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poets work... a landmark collection.Raul Nio Booklist starred review Even the readers who know him may not know that Harrison began as a poet and remained one for the rest of his life.... Jim Harrison Complete Poems is a massive and bounteous body of work that would have made Harrison a significant American writer even if he had never published in any other genre.The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice In a collection that spans decades of living and writing there are poems of every character many of them superb.Library Journal starred review This densely rich book...places Harrison among the pantheon of our best American poets. New York Journal of Books Ive always loved Jim Harrisons poetryso full of itself so direct and hungry and angered and awed. I think of him in many ways as a religious poet and was surprised that he was excluded from Harold Blooms anthology American Religious Poems. It seemed quite the oversight.Joy Williams The Paris Review Thats what makes his poetry so intimate the sense that it comes to us without filter without the expectations or necessity of narrative. It is why I will always think of Harrison most of all as a poet.David Ulin Alta When Jim Harrison Complete Poems arrives in the mail I stare at it for a time a little dumbfounded. It is gorgeous and it is massive.... The next day I carried it north with me to the Flathead Indian Reservation. I am teaching poetry to fourth and fifth graders there. At the beginning of each of four classes I held the book up for everyone to see. We passed it around so everyone could feel its heft see the photo on the back cover of the grizzled poet his eyes turned down drawing on the ubiquitous cigarette. I described it as a physical representation of a life devoted to poetry and how wonderful that is. I was asked how