Rain on the River by Jim Dodge

Rain on the River by Jim Dodge

While Jim Dodge is internationally known for his fiction, his first and abiding passion is poetry. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously and reading only to local crowds in the Pacific Northwest, he began to issue occasional limited-edition letterpress chapbooks with a small press, as well as occasional broadsides and, since 1987, a winter solstice poem or story, most given as gifts to friends. Rain on the River contains work collected here for the first time, as well as three dozen previously unpublished poems. Dodge's poems and short prose offer the same pleasures as his fiction -- a splendid ear for language, great emotional range and subtlety, a sharp eye for the illuminating detail, and a sensibility that encompasses outright hilarity, savage wit, and tender marvel, all made eminently accessible through writing of uncompromising clarity and grace. Like being at a nonstop party in celebration of everything that matters. -- Thomas Pynchon A rollicking, frequently surprising adventure-cum-fairy tale. It also has a sweetness about it and an indigenous American optimism. -- The New York Times Book Review Diverse, savvy, passionate. Poetry should be a pleasure, and Jim Dodge's work is just that. -- Gary Snyder

Jim Dodge is the author of three novels: Fup, Not Fade Away, and Stone Junction, as well as Rain on the River, a collection of poetry and short writing. He graduated from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing/poetry in 1969 and has been the director of the creative writing program in the English department at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, since 1995. He has worked as an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd, and a woodcutter while living on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County.

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ISBN 13	9780802138965
ISBN 10	0802138969
Title	Rain on the River
Author	Jim Dodge
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2002-05-30
Number of pages	144
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