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Title	:	Rain on the River: Selected Poems and Short Prose
Author	:	Jim Dodge
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2007 by Grove Press (first published March 1st 2002)
Categories	:	Poetry. Literature. American. Fiction

Rain on the River: Selected Poems and Short Prose

Jim Dodge

ebook | Pages: 144 pages

Rating: 4.26 | 123 Users | 16 Reviews

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Chapbooks, musings, poetry, and prose by a folklorist with a "wonderful imagination, eye for detail and command of language" (Publishers Weekly).

While Jim Dodge is internationally known for his fiction, his first and abiding passion is poetry. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously and only reading to local crowds in the Pacific Northwest, he began to issue occasional limited-edition letterpress chapbooks, 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Rain on the River contains his work collected here for the first time, as well as three dozen previously unpublished poems. Dodge's verse 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. "Jim's words are his gift to the world. His life is his art; his words are merely tokens of appreciation. Reading the poems and short prose . . . makes me happy to be alive. . . . Mine's a happiness born from the revelation that 'money and food and poetry [are] ways to live, not reasons," as Jim puts it" (Sacramento News & Review).

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Original Title:	Rain on the River: New and Selected Poems and Short Prose
ISBN:	0802198287 (ISBN13: 9780802198280)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.26 From 123 Users | 16 Reviews

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já li varios poemas deste livro na travessa do barra shopping.já quis levar pra casa duas vezes.mas cara, quase 80 reais numa edição bem sem graça não deu ainda.mas q eu amei as partes q li, amei mesmo.

Sex, love, death, work, nature and humor-- a little something for everyone here.

Jim Dodge is a truly gifted author I could read him all day and most of the night ............he's awesome

Dodge is one of the Pacific North West, Buddhist leaning, writers like Gary Snyder and Red Pine. For my money, this is one of the most beautiful books to come out of it.

4,5 stars; I like Gary Snyder's blurb too: "some profound comments on dogs and salmon..." "...and much else that defies description." A real pleasure to read.

I love this book. I *adore* this book. Even if I wasn't a 20-year resident of the setting for these slapstick and personal poems, I think I'd love them all the same for their simultaneously prosaic and transcendent themes delivered in Dodge's signature jocular voice.

Jim Dodge is lyrical personal confessional and expansive. The world is made more flexible (and open) thru his poetry and prose. Like the story about bathing a dog in an old bathtub. It is very good.