Background
Harrison, Jeffrey Woods was born on October 10, 1957 in Cincinnati. Son of Robert Sattler and Anne Woods Harrison.
(This volume gathers poems from Harrison's first three boo...)
This volume gathers poems from Harrison's first three books-- The Singing Underneath, Signs of Arrival, and Feeding the Fire-- over two decades of poetry, and a handful of more recent poems.
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(This is a fine, letterpress chapbook containing only ten ...)
This is a fine, letterpress chapbook containing only ten poems, published by The Windhover Press two years before the full-length book of the same title. The title page bears an illustration by the poet's brother.
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(This collection consists at its core of a sequence of poe...)
This collection consists at its core of a sequence of poems that speak to the loss of the writer’s brother to suicide. These poems stun us by their restraint and simplicity, and by their astonishment that this life, so important to so many, could be extinguished in such a manner. Harrison’s poems are impeccably crafted and move through narrative seamlessly—dry, naive, vulnerable, always accessible.
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( Feeding the Fire retains the virtue of Jeffrey Harrison...)
Feeding the Fire retains the virtue of Jeffrey Harrison's earlier work—accessibility and clarity, without sacrifice of complexity—while branching into new territory. There are love poems, lyrics entwined in metaphor, and a number of elegies for the "unfamous," those indelible characters met in any life who shape individual consciousness. Most significantly there are poems of recollection, in which the charged moments of youth, dimly understood at the time of occurrence, return to the poet in flashes of brilliant clarity and passages of intense reminiscence. These new poems affirm the restorative mystery of our own innocence and articulate our complex, stumbling passage toward experience. "Harrison's language is exact, sinuous, and compelling, and leads to places we may not have seen before, but know when we arrive. This is a beautiful book."—Henry Taylor "This is a book that can be read from start to finish with ever-heightened expectations that are never disappointed, and with sustained delight."—Anthony Hecht "Here are hauntingly composed poems of remembrance, of happiness and eagerness and regret—of life lyrically embraced, all beautifully rendered by one of our finest poets."—Robert Coles Jeffrey Harrison is the author of two previous books of poetry, The Singing Underneath, selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, and Signs of Arrival. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Pushcart Prize, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He currently lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
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Harrison, Jeffrey Woods was born on October 10, 1957 in Cincinnati. Son of Robert Sattler and Anne Woods Harrison.
Bachelor, Columbia University, New York City, 1980. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, Iowa City, 1984.
Research assistant Phillips Collection, Washington, 1987, 1992. Instructor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1989. Lecturer George Washington University, Washington, 1990-1993.
Writer in residence Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1997-2000. Instructor College Holy Cross, 2003. Member faculty Master of Fine Arts program Stone Coast, 2003—2009.
Lecturer Framingham State College, since 2010. Visiting writer University Maryland, College Park, 1991. Teacher Frost Place, Franconia, New Hampshire, 1992, 95, 98, 99, 2002, 04, 09, Chautauqua Institute, New York, 1998, 2004, Wesleyan Writers' Conference, Middletown, CT, 2010.
(This volume gathers poems from Harrison's first three boo...)
( Feeding the Fire retains the virtue of Jeffrey Harrison...)
(This is a fine, letterpress chapbook containing only ten ...)
(This collection consists at its core of a sequence of poe...)
(First Dutton edition; originally printed as Windover Pres...)
(Book by Harrison, Jeffrey)
Married Julia Wells, November 28, 1981. Children: William, Eliza.