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About Jim Harrison
American poet, novelist, and essayist
Jim Harrison was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He wrote across the 20th and early 21st centuries, and remains best known for the range of his work and for the poems he valued most. He is associated with 113 quotes on this site. Harrison published more than three dozen books in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and memoir. He also wrote screenplays, book reviews, and literary criticism, and he published essays on food, travel, and sport. Among his many forms, he said poetry mattered most to him.
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- “If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware…”Benjamin Clementine
- “What are you?” he demanded. “A slayer?" I rolled my eyes. “The name's Val, not Buffy. Do I look like a blond…”Parker Blue
- “Oh crap! Someone is asking me to quote myself. Why don't they just ask me to drink acid and run naked into a…”Elizabeth Anglin
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Books by Jim Harrison
Warlock
1981
Letters to Yesenin
1973