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West, Poems of a Place is a book which describes and revels in the changes in the author's life when he and his wife moved out of San Antonio, into a country place in the small town of Lytle, Texas. Dedicated to the fine Texas poet, Robert Burlingame, West's focus on the dayliness of the natural world and the wonder of it to new eyes, is a celebration in keeping with Burlingame's voice and vision. This book is rich in names--places, plants, animals--and has a celebratory tone that is infectious.

Publishers Weekly called Jim Harrison "an untrammeled renegade genius," a poet who performed "absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."

Throughout the pages of Jim Harrison: Early Poems, a young, ambitious poet engaged with a wide range of subjects, styles and forms, sounding for voice and vision in lyrics, prose poems, long suites, and propulsive ghazals. Jim Harrison called poetry "the true bones of my life." Jim Harrison: Early Poems contains every poem that appeared in his first five books of poetry, all published before his breakthrough novella trilogy, Legends of the Fall. As Colum McCann writes in his generous introduction, "Jim Harrison: Early Poems showcases the poems of the early years. Harrison gets us--his readers--to have a hard look at ourselves primarily because he opens up his internal tuning fork to all sorts of sounds and ideas. There is enormous bravery here." Throughout these pages a young, ambitious poet engages with a wide range of subjects, styles and forms, sounding for his voice and vision in lyrics, prose poems, long suites, and propulsive ghazals. Regarding the poetry written during this period, Publishers Weekly called Harrison, "an untrammeled renegade genius," noting that he was "a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."