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Included is an introduction by Harrison, several previously uncollected poems, an index to first lines, and "Geo-Bestiary," a new thirty-four part suite rooted in Harrison's legendary passions for food, sex. poetry, and the natural world.
Concerning Harrison's work, The New York Times wrote: "This is poetry worth loving, hating, and fighting over."
Publishers Weekly noted that Harrison's poetry was the work of an "untrammeled renegade genius...Here's a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."
Booklist gave The Shape of the Journey a starred and boxed review, and stated: "Harrison is most readily identified with his fiction, including the just-out The Road Home, but, as he explains in the striking introduction to this superb collection, it is his poetry that means the most to him. He equates writing poetry with creating cave paintings or petroglyphs, so intrinsically human is the urge to express the life of the soul, and his poems do make the temporal timeless. Beginning with spare and lovely poems from Plain Song (1965), Harrison offers the best of seven subsequent collection, including the heart-revving howl of Letters to Yesenin (1973) and the Zen-influenced After Ikkyu (1996), followed by a set of new poems that go off, like fireworks, with a bang followed by a radiant bloom. A man temperamentally unsuited to cities and academia, Harrison is drawn to the endlessly enlightening beauty of nature and sustained by the awareness of mind kindled by the practices of writing, Zen Buddhism, and walking the earth. Readers can wander the woods of this collection for a lifetime and still be amazed at what they find."
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