Jim Harrison (1937-2016) 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). 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 a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. 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.

Plain Song (1965)
Poem
Sketch for a Job-Application Blank
Northern Michigan
Fair/Boy Christian Takes a Break
Lisle's River
Dead Deer

Locations (1968)
Walking
Suite to Fathers
Locations

Outlyer & Ghazals (1971)
Drinking Song
Ghazal 1
Ghazal 2
Ghazal 3
Ghazal 10
Ghazal 11
Ghazal 23
Ghazal 24
Ghazal 26
Ghazal 36
Ghazal 52
Ghazal 55
Ghazal 56
Ghazal 59
Ghazal 62
Ghazal 65

Letters to Yesenin (1973)
Letter 1
Letter 2
Letter 3
Letter 5
Letter 8
Letter 16
Letter 20
Letter 21
Letter 26
Letter 29
Letter 30
Postscript

Returning to Earth (1977)
Returning to Earth

Selected & New Poems (1982)
Followers
Gathering April

The Theory and Practice of Rivers & New Poems (1989)
The Theory and Practice of Rivers
The Brand New Statue of Liberty
My Friend the Bear
Counting Birds

After Ikkyu & Other Poems (1996)
After Ikkyu 1
After Ikkyu 6
After Ikkyu 11
After Ikkyu 12
After Ikkyu 13
After Ikkyu 14
After Ikkyu 15
After Ikkyu 18
After Ikkyu 24
After Ikkyu 29
After Ikkyu 37
After Ikkyu 39
After Ikkyu 40
After Ikkyu 50
After Ikkyu 57
The Davenport Lunar Eclipse
Bear
Twilight
Return to Yesenin

Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
Geo-Bestiary 1
Geo-Bestiary 7
Geo-Bestiary 10
Geo-Bestiary 11
Geo-Bestiary 16
Geo-Bestiary 29
Geo-Bestiary 34

Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (2003)
Excerpts

Saving Daylight (2007)
Water
Cabbage
Mom and Dad
Night Dharma
Adding It Up
Angry Women
Alcohol
Flower, 2001
Mother Night
Birds Again
103 Poem of War (i)
Fence Line Tree

In Search of Small Gods (2009)
I Believe
Calendars
Larson¿s Holstein Bull
New Moon
Advice
Fibber
Early Fishing
Cold Wind
Alien
Eleven Dawns with Su Tung-p¿o
The Quarter

Songs of Unreason (2011)
Broom
Notation
Poet Warning
A Puzzle
Rumination
Oriole
Blue Shawl
River ii
River v
River vi
Grand Marais
Debtors
Death Again

Dead Man's Float (2016)
Solstice Litany
Another Country
Seven in the Woods
The Present
A Variation on Machado
Lorca Again
February
Apple Tree
Galactic
Warbler
Bridge