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The speaker is saying that Michigan contains two very different regions, the North and the South, and that this difference creates strong dramatic contrast. The quote treats that contrast as something that makes the state interesting.
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Originally said in English.
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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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Books by Jim Harrison
Warlock
1981
Letters to Yesenin
1973