In the spring of 1956, the popular poet and critic John Ciardi, fresh off his iconic translation of The Inferno, became the poetry editor of Saturday Review. He announced his editorial mission in an ...

The life of the beloved and acclaimed author/poet Jim Harrison is explored in a new biography, “Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life,” by Todd Goddard. The new book released just this month ...

This is “Complete Poems” by Harrison. Assembled by his longtime poetry publisher, Copper Canyon Press, the tome collects all 14 of Harrison’s published books of poetry. It weighs over 3 pounds. Not ...

Pleasure and mortality are the twin themes of Harrison’s mammoth “Complete Poems,” spanning his career from his 1965 debut to his 2016 death. By Troy Jollimore Jim Harrison’s appetite was legendary.

"I'm not sure I'm particularly well equipped to tell the truth," writes Harrison. But with such a colorful life, there's not much need to tell lies. Bus boy, gardener, gourmand, novelist, screenwriter ...

Back in the mid-'70s, when my "office" was the Minneapolis Central Library, I noticed a novel on display — "Farmer," by Jim Harrison. I was attracted because the setting was Michigan, a rare novel of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Harrison, the fiction writer, poet, outdoorsman and reveler who wrote with gruff affection for the country's landscape and rural life and enjoyed mainstream success in middle age ...

Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was once so struck by a photo of the model Lauren Hutton, captured in a state of undress while reading Ezra Pound’s “ABC of Reading,” that he wrote her a letter. He admits to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Harrison, the fiction writer, poet, outdoorsman and reveler who wrote with gruff affection for the country's landscape and rural life and enjoyed mainstream success in middle age ...