"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

02 November 2011

Thankful.


Songs of Unreason, Harrison's latest collection of poetry, is a wonderful defense of the possibilities of living. Far from the pop psychology, woe-is-me memoir, or thinly veiled self-help prose gracing so much of this nation's poetry, Harrison's collection is our last connection to the Romantics and Whitman. His lines come off like the bastard child of Keats and Dogen. His are hard won lines, but never bitter, just broken in and thankful for the chance to have seen it all.

Read the rest at INDUSTRIAL WORKER BOOK REVIEW.

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