Poetry Magazine
The Girls of Winter
Source: Poetry (November 2012).
Biography
Jim Harrison has spent much of his life in Michigan on a farm near where he was born. His connection to rural landscapes is evident in his free-verse, imagistic poetry, which often explores human and animal drives set against an unforgiving natural world. Noting the poetry’s relation to Hemingway’s prose style in a review of Harrison’s Selected & New Poems 1961–1981, poet and critic Richard Tillinghast declared in the New York . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Growing Old, The Body, Time & Brevity, Youth, Love, Desire
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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Writer, Poet Jim Harrison Is a Determined “Outsider”
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