Jim Harrison

Recovering from a fall down the face of a three-hundred-foot dam in South America, Robert Corvus Strang, a self-educated foreman who works on giant dam projects, recalls his hard but exhilarating life.

Braided Creek contains over 300 poems exchanged in this longstanding correspondence. Wise, wry, and penetrating, the poems touch upon numerous subjects, from the natural world to the nature of time. Harrison and Kooser decided to remain silent over who wrote which poem, allowing their voices, ideas, and images to swirl and merge into this remarkable suite of lyrics.

A collection of novellas includes the title story, in which an aging writer struggles with his ex and a litter of piglets; "Eggs," in which a woman tries to have a baby after reflecting on her London youth; and a story featuring Detective Sunderson.

"The Essential Poems of Jim Harrison is distilled from nearly 1,000 poems that appeared in fourteen volumes--from visionary lyrics and meditative suites to shape-shifting ghazals and prose-poem letters. Teeming throughout these pages are Harrison's legendary passions and appetites, his meditations, rages, and love-songs to the natural world. The New York Times concluded a review from early in Harrison's career with a provocative quote: 'This is poetry...

A former fighter pilot is irresistably drawn to the wife of an old friend. When the husband learns of their betrayal, a terrifying cycle of retribution is set in motion.

A man has an affair with his friend's wife.