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Jim Harrison (19372016) was the author of over three dozen books, including Legends of the Fall and Dalva, and served as the food columnist for the magazines Brick and Esquire. He published fourteen volumes of poetry, the final being Dead Man's Float (2016), which appeared a few months before his death. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. As a young poet he co-edited Sumac magazine with fellow poet Dan Gerber, and earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2007, he was elected into the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Regarding his most beloved art form, he wrote: "Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak." Jim Harrison certainly spoke the language. Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School, is known for her impassioned and lyrical prose and her advocacy in defense of wild spaces. She is the author of numerous books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine,and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. Joseph Bednarik is the Co-Publisher at Copper Canyon Press. He is the editor of Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems, The Sumac Reader, and co-editor of One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader. |
