Dead Man's Float
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2016.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Edition, First Printing (with a number string ending in “2”).
Harrison’s 14th poetry collection first published in 2016. Harrison died in March of that year. From the dust wrapper flap: “A dead man’s float” is a survival technique used by swimmers during an exhausting journey. Reading and writing poems served as Jim Harrison’s dead man’s float while he gritted through the agonies and indignities of shingles and surgeries. During his lengthy convalescence, Harrison extols fellow poets who suffered greater hardships and brutal deaths - Lorca, Machada, Mandelstam - and marvels at the beauty they created. Preoccupied with the savageries of time and recognizing that 'at my age you don’t think about the future because you don’t have one,' Harrison assures his readers: 'Mind you, I’m in no rush for this to end'.”
Item #901327ISBN: 9781556594458
6-1/4 x 9-5/16”, blue paper over boards, 107pp, About the Author, 2pp underwriters.
Clean, square, bright, fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $75.00