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In Search of Small Gods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 117

In Search of Small Gods

Harrison, one of America's most celebrated writers, is considered "a renegade genius" for his poetry.

God's Grace Inscribed on the Human Heart
  • Language: en

God's Grace Inscribed on the Human Heart

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-08-31
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A collection of essays in honour of James R. Harrison, with contributions from Peter Arzt-Grabner, Richard S. Ascough, Paul Barnett, Stephen C. Barton, Bradley J. Bitner, Darrell L. Bock, Peter G. Bolt, Cilliers Breytenbach, Alan H. Cadwallader, Constantine R. Campbell, Doru Costache, John A. Davies, Kathy Ehrensperger, Joseph D. Fantin, Louise A. Gosbell, Edwin A. Judge, Rosalinde Kearsley, John S. Kloppenborg, Peter Lampe, Stephen Llewelyn and William Robinson, Harry O. Maier, Peter Oakes, Julien M. Ogereau, Neil Ormerod, Mark Reasoner, E. Randolph Richards, Guy MacLean Rogers, Benjamin Schliesser, Isaac T. Soon, Mark Stephens, Michael Trainor, Paul Trebilco, Samuel Vollenweider, and L. L. Welborn.

Jim Harrison: Complete Poems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 901

Jim Harrison: Complete Poems

Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet's work... [a] landmark collection." From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. 'Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,' said Jorie Graham." Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Te...

Brown Dog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

Brown Dog

This collection of novellas featuring the titular Indian underscores Jim Harrison’s place as one of America’s most irrepressible writers. A New York Times–bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, has earned cult status with readers in the decades since his first appearance. Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never-published one, into one volume—the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison’s irresistible Everyman. In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior’s cold waters; overindulges in...

A Really Big Lunch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

A Really Big Lunch

'The late Jim Harrison was one of the true greats when it came to writing about food. He combined an attention to detail with a glorious prose style and a massive appetite... A must read.' - Observer New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as 'the poet laureate of appetite' ( Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve. Jim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From...

Reading Romans with Roman Eyes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Reading Romans with Roman Eyes

Paul’s letter to the Romans has a long history in Christian dogmatic battles. But how might the letter have been heard by an audience in Neronian Rome? James R. Harrison answers that question through a reader-response approach grounded in deep investigations of the material and ideological culture of the city, from Augustus to Nero. Inscriptional, archaeological, monumental, and numismatic evidence, in addition to a breadth of literary material, allows him to describe the ideological “value system” of the Julio-Claudian world, which would have shaped the perceptions and expectations of Paul’s readers. Throughout, Harrison sets prominent Pauline themes‒‒his obligation to Greeks and barbarians, newness of life and of creation against the power of death, the body of Christ, “boasting” in “glory” and God’s purpose in and for Israel‒‒in startling juxtaposition with Roman ideological themes. The result is a richer and more complex understanding of the letter’s argument and its possible significance for contemporary readers.

The Raw and the Cooked
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Raw and the Cooked

A classic collection full of salty wisdom, from 'the Henry Miller of food writing' ( Wall Street Journal) and author of Legends of the Fall. Food is an extreme sport for Jim Harrison. As a seven-month old baby he was found chewing the leather binding of the family Bible with 'its slightly beefy flavour'; from then on, when he didn't have his nose in a book he could be found eating - everything. The Raw and the Cooked collects his musings on meat, marinades and a million other things besides, from the man who likes to wrestle his dinner to the ground then wash it down with a really good 1967 Latour.

Letters to Yesenin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Letters to Yesenin

Sergei Yesenin was a Russian poet who, in 1925, hanged himself after writing his farewell poem in blood. Jim Harrison's "correspondence" with Yesenin is an American masterwork. In the early 1970s, Harrison was living in poverty on a hard-scrabble farm, suffering from depression and suicidal urges. He began to write daily prose-poem letters to Yesenin, confiding to his unlikely friend about sex, drunkenness, family, politics - about living for another day. Although "the rope" remained ever present, Harrison listened to his poems: "My year-old daughter's red robe hangs from the doorknob shouting Stop."

The Accidental Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

The Accidental Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-11
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  • Publisher: Vintage

An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A celebration of the writing and editing life, as well as a look behind the scenes at some of the most influential magazines in America (and the writers who made them what they are). You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Sports Illustrated. In this revealing memoir, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he’s known are both heartbreaking and bitingly funny—playing “acid golf” with Hunter S. Thompson, practicing brinksmanship wit...

Paul's Language of Grace in its Graeco-Roman Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 475

Paul's Language of Grace in its Graeco-Roman Context

Paul’s Language of Grace in Its Graeco-Roman Context was originally published by Mohr Siebeck in 2003 and is now reprinted by Wipf and Stock with a new introduction by its author, James R. Harrison. The book was the first major investigation of charis (‘grace’, ‘favor’) in its social, political, and religious context since G. P. Wetter’s pioneering 1913 monograph on the topic. Focusing on the evidence of the inscriptions, papyri, philosophers, and Greek Jewish literature, Harrison examined the operations of the eastern Mediterranean benefaction system, probing the dynamic of reciprocity between the beneficiary and benefactor, whether human or divine. Before Paul’s converts were...