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  Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry, with Ted

  Kooser

  Saving Daylight

  In Search of Small Gods Songs of Unreason

  NONFICTION

  Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction

  The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving

  Gourmand

  Off to the Side: A Memoir

  NOVELS

  Wolf: A False Memoir A Good Day to Die Farmer

  Warlock

  Sundog

  Dalva

  The Road Home

  True North

  Returning to Earth

  The English Major

  The Great Leader

  NOVELLA TRILOGIES

  Legends of the Fall

  The Woman Lit by Fireflies

  Julip

  The Beast God Forgot to Invent

  The Summer He Didn’t Die

  The Farmer’s Daughter

  CHILDREN’S

  The Boy Who Ran to the Woods

  Links

  jimharrison.com

  Acknowledgments

  “Suite of Unreason” appeared in Narrative. “Blue” and “René Char II” appeared in New Poets of the American West (Many Voices Press).“Sunlight” appeared in Reflections (Yale Divinity School).

  Copyright 2011 by Jim Harrison

  All rights reserved

  Cover art: Russell Chatham, Summer Storm, 1998.

  Lithograph 16” x 20”.

  ISBN: 978-1-55659-389-5

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