Jim Harrison: Early Poems

Introduction by Colum McCann

PLAIN SONG

Poem 

Sketch for a Job-Application Blank

David

Exercise

A Sequence Of Women

Northern Michigan

Tree

Returning at Night

Apology

Lost

“She” 

“I’ve had enough tonight.” 

“Once I stood all night” 

Fair/Boy Christian Takes a Break 

Morning 

Garden 

Horse 

Kinship 

February Suite 

Traverse City Zoo 

Reverie 

Fox Farm 

“The painting on the wall” 

Ticket 

Nightmare 

Credo, After E.P. 

Dusk 

Lisle’s River 

Three Night Songs 

Cardinal 

Bellevue 

“This is cold salt” 

John Severin Walgren, 1874–1962 

New Liturgy 

Malediction 

WorD Drunk 

Young Bull 

Park at Night 

“Not casida, canzone—” 

Going Back 

Hitchhiking 

Sound 

Dead Deer 

Li Ho 

Complaint 

Return 

LOCATIONS

Walking 

Suite to Fathers 

Suite to Appleness 

The Sign 

War Suite 

American Girl 

Lullaby for a Daughter 

Sequence 

Cold August 

Night in Boston 

February Swans 

Thin Ice 

Natural World 

Moving 

White 

After the Anonymous Swedish 

Dawn Whiskey

 Breakthrough 

Legenda 

A Year’s Changes 

Locations 

OUTLYER & GHAZALS

OUTLYER

In Interims: Outlyer

Trader

Hospital

Cowgirl 

Drinking Song 

She Again 

Awake 

GHAZZALS

Notes on the Ghazals

Ghazals: I–LXV

LETTERS TO YESENIN 

Letters: 1–30

Postscript

INCIDENTS

A Last Ghazal

A Domestic Poem for Portia 

Missy, 1966–1971

Four Matrices 

North America Image Cycle 

RETURNING TO EARTH

Returning to Earth 

SELECTED & NEW POEMS 

Not Writing My Name

Frog 

Rooster 

Epithalamium 

A Redolence for Nims

Followers

My First Day as a Painter

Waiting

Noon

Birthday

Clear Water 3

Dōgen’s Dream

Weeping

The Chatham Ghazal

Marriage Ghazal

March Walk

The Woman from Spiritwood 

Gathering April

Walter of Battersea 

After Reading Takahashi

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines

About the Author