In Search of Small Gods

In Search of Small Gods

<div><div><P>"Funny and tender beneath a wry and gruff seen-it-all veneer, Harrison contemplates death, discerns divinity in every stone and leaf, and nobility in ordinary lives, and laughs at our attempts to separate ourselves from the rest of nature."€"<I>Booklist</I></P><P>"His poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life."€"<I>The Texas Observer</I></P><P>Now in paperback, Jim Harrison's best-selling poetry book <I>In Search of Small Gods</I> is where birds and humans converse, autobiographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just out of sight. In terrains real and imagined€"from remote canyons and anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe€"Harrison calls upon readers to live fully in a world where "Death steals everything except our stories."</P><P><I>Maybe the problem is that I got involved with the wrong crowd of<br>gods when I was seven. At first they weren't harmful and only showed<br>themselves as fish, birds, especially herons and loons, turtles, a bobcat<br>and a small bear, but not deer and rabbits who only offered themselves<br>as food. And maybe I spent too much time inside the water of<br>lakes and rivers. Underwater seemed like the safest church I could<br>go to . . . </I></P><P><B>Jim Harrison</B> is one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including <I>Legends of the Fall</I> and <I>Dalva</I>. His work has been translated into two dozen languages. He lives in Arizona and Montana.</P></div></div>