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Jim Harrison (1937-2016)

“My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.”
-- Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, in 1937. He received a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in English from Michigan State University and soon began writing full time. Over the course of his career, he wrote dozens of books of poetry, novellas, novels, essays, and short stories. He is best known for his work about nature and rural life. Many of his stories take place in the outdoors of Michigan, Arizona, and Montana, all of which he lived in for several years. His wife of more than 50 years died in 2015, and he died on March 26, 2016, at the age of 78.

 

After Ikkyū and other poems
by Jim Harrison
1996
A book of zen poetry. This is a collection of short, powerful, and vivid gems.

„I began my Zen studies and practice well over twenty years ago in a
state of rapacious and self-congratulatory spiritual greed. I
immediately set about reading hundreds of books on the subject,
almost all contemporary and informed by an earnest mediocrity.
There was no more self-referential organism alive than myself, a
potato that didn’t know it was a potato.”

Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry
Jim Harrison (1937-2016) and Ted Kooser (1939-)
[joint haiku collection]
Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2003.