Rain On The River

"This diverse, savvy, passionate selection of poems by novelist Jim Dodge contains lyric epigrams that go straight to the non-dualist bedrock, backwoods workers' dharma-combat humour, loving poems for wife and son, several high-spirited and near-transcendent poems of truth, sex and insight, some profound comments on dogs and salmon, a few vivid and pithy little prose pieces, and much else that defies description. His wide-ranging work is refined and accomplished with a sly sort of off-handedness. Poetry should be a pleasure, and Jim Dodge's work is just that: anyone who picks up this book has a treat in store."
Gary Snyder

About the author

Jim Dodge is the author of three novels, including Fup and Not Fade Away, and a collection of poetry and short prose, Rain on the River. He lived for many years on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years, a woodcutter and an environmental restorer.

Summary

This is fiction writer Jom Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Dodge, Dodge Jim
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2002
• EAN: 9781841952369
• ISBN: 978-1-84195-236-9
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 99 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; FICTION / General, Poetry, Short Stories, Poetry by individual poets