{"product_id":"in-search-of-small-gods","title":"In Search Of Small Gods","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Funny and tender beneath a wry and gruff seen-it-all veneer, Harrison contemplates death, discerns divinity in every stone and leaf, and nobility in ordinary lives, and laughs at our attempts to separate ourselves from the rest of nature.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"His poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Texas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, Jim Harrison''s best-selling poetry book \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Small Gods\u003c\/i\u003e is where birds and humans converse, autobiographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just out of sight. In terrains real and imagined—from remote canyons and anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe—Harrison calls upon readers to live fully in a world where \"Death steals everything except our stories.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaybe the problem is that I got involved with the wrong crowd of\u003cbr\u003egods when I was seven. At first they weren''t harmful and only showed\u003cbr\u003ethemselves as fish, birds, especially herons and loons, turtles, a bobcat\u003cbr\u003eand a small bear, but not deer and rabbits who only offered themselves\u003cbr\u003eas food. And maybe I spent too much time inside the water of\u003cbr\u003elakes and rivers. Underwater seemed like the safest church I could\u003cbr\u003ego to . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e is one of America''s most versatile and celebrated writers. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDalva\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been translated into two dozen languages. He lives in Arizona and Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57389892960638,"sku":"NW9781556593192","price":11.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781556593192.jpg?v=1778613791","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/in-search-of-small-gods","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}