New Releases by Jim Harrison

After being blinded in one eye, a young boy becomes wild and unruly, until he discovers the wonders of nature in the Michigan woods near his family''s summer cabin.

Revoici Chien Brun dans de nouvelles aventures rocambolesques : quittant son Michigan natal, il part vers l''Ouest pour écumer Hollywood à la recherche de sa peau d''ours magique. Rencontres improbables (un scénariste qui ressemble comme deux gouttes d''eau à " Big Jim ", quelques starlettes affriolantes), quiproquos burlesques et dialogues hilarants dans " l''Usine à rêves " que l''auteur de La Route du retour connaît bien pour y avoir commis quelques scénarios. Suivent deux novellas émouvantes, où des hommes mûrs, sinon âgés, découvrent sur le tard qu''ils ont perdu leur vie à la gagner. L''érotisme rajeunit et sauve in extremis des " deux démons calvinistes que sont le travail et l''argent ". Et, si les voyages forment la vieillesse, pourquoi ne pas visiter Barcelone et Paris, plutôt que de s''encroûter dans ce " Disneyland fasciste " qu''est devenue l''Amérique ?

Jim Harrison''s essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions and concerns of a classic American writer: ice fishing and bar pool, nouvelle cuisine and night walks.

Dans ce recueil de poèmes, Jim Harrison s''inspire d''une forme poétique persane très brève, le ghâzal. Mais ses notations personnelles elliptiques rappellent aussi par leur concision évocatrice le haïku japonais : voyages, amours éphémères, satoris bouddhistes, deuils, exploits gastronomiques, petits boulots, angoisse de vivre, tout est, pour l''auteur de Dalva, matière à écriture dans ces poèmes finalement très proches de l''univers de Kerouac et de Ginsberg.

Three novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when they feel threatened

From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam -- and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.

John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployment foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil to Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan while also spying on his employer''s wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is the singular literary entertainment from an American master.

Explains the differences in meaning between hundreds of pairs of frequently confused words

The south Atlantic is special. It beckons with southern hospitality and charm. The graceful elegance of the seascape is enhanced by the complex, intricate and beautiful natural order. This colorful tribute to the southeastern coast is not a scholarly nature study. You won''t find detailed descriptions of all the fish of the sea or birds of the air. Instead, this book should be viewed as a sampling of the incredible beauty and unique vitality of the Atlantic coast of the southeast. - Preface.

In the wilds of Michigan''s Upper Peninsula, Robert Corvus Strang is crawling through the woods. A beautiful Costa Rican woman is dancing in a string bikini, and a dissipated writer is trying to stay on his feet....All three have retreated to this isolated land--where Strang, builder of dams and bridges, preacher of gospels, lover of women, explorer of limits, launches into the story of his monumental life. In a novel that stretches from Michigan to Africa and the Amazon, Strang leads his listeners across rivers of time, through the nature of innocence, politics and desire, to a final and stunning defiance of life''s frailty.

Joseph, 43 ans, fils de fermiers suédois, est instituteur dans une petite ville du Michigan. Il partage ses loisirs entre la chasse, la pêche, et les soirées à la taverne du coin. Il mènerait une existence tranquille s''il n''était écartelé entre la femme qu''il aime depuis toujours et l''une de ses élèves avec laquelle il vit une liaison violente. Une histoire simple, celle d''un homme en quête de sérénité. Une quête silencieuse et infinie, comme les paysages de l''Amérique. Nostalgie... mélancolie même. Harrison ne nous avait pas habitué, à ce type de récit paisible jusqu''alors. Il nen reste pas moins convaincant. Le Monde La seule recherche de Jim Harrison a consisté à trouver le mot juste.pour faire ressortir chacune de ses émotions. Il s en tire avec un naturel qui le rend inimitable. Quinzaine littéraire Sublime. Les Nouvelles littéraires

Selected & New Pomes marks Jim Harrison''s return to the world of poetry after a seven-year hiatus, a self-imposed exile caused by his exhaustion after writing Letters to Yesenin and Returning to Earth (both included in their entirety in this volume). During this period Harrison wrote Legends of the Fall - a collection of novellas - and two Farmer and Warlock . He evolved a new approach to his poetry, hoping to avoid both academic formalism and vogue of hygienic confessions. The voice of the selected poems speaks with the courage, intelligence, and wit that is Harrison''s alone.