"A beautifully mysterious inquiry."— " , Harrison's latest collection of poetry, is a wonderful defense of the possibilities of living."— "As in all good poetry, Harrison's lines linger to be ruminated upon a third or fourth time, with each new reading revealing more substance and raising more questions."— Jim Harrison's compelling and provocative explores what it means to inhabit the world in atavistic, primitive, and totemistic ways. "This can be disturbing to the learned," Harrison admits. Using interconnected suites, brief lyrics, and rollicking narratives, Harrison's passions and concerns—creeks, thickets, time's effervescence, familiar love—emerge by turns painful and celebratory, localized and exiled. Where's my medicine bag? It's either hiddenor doesn't exist. Inside are memories of earth: corn pollen, a bear claw, an umbilical cord. If they exist they help me ride the darkheavens of this life. Such fragile wings. is the author of thirty books, including and , and has served as the food columnist for . Harrison divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.