Jim Dodge said he would consider publishing a volume of poetry if he lived to the millennium. Happily he did, and Rain on the River is the immediate result - work selected from his Tangram chapbooks, broadsides, and Solstice pieces, accompanied by three dozen new poems. If you've enjoyed his fiction, Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose offer similar pleasures: 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.
Rain On The River: Selected Poems and Short Prose
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* Dodge writes short, zen-like odes that are refreshingly accessible in their simplicity... Rain on the River proves that in addition to Dodge's amazing talent for plot, his use of language is unequalled. Dazed and Confused * His writing is often as good as writing gets. Literary Review * The most imaginative of any living author. Kevin Sampson, author of Powder
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Jim Dodge is the author of three novels - Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction - and a collection so poetry and short prose, Rain on the River. He lives on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years and a woodcutter. He currently works as an environmental restorer - primarily tree planting, log-jam removal and erosion control.
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Jim Dodge - A Tremendous Talent
1 Feb 2007
By Christopher A. Haack
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I first saw Mr. Dodge recite his poetry and prose at a reading in Humboldt County to benefit a local school that was damaged by the big earthquake back in 92'. It was a magical evening made all the more significant by the fact that the featured reader was the living legend, Gary Snyder. This was the first time I had heard Jim's material and was completely blown away, particularly by the pieces The Cookie Jar and The Banker. I read two of his novels in the years since (Not Fade Away and Fup), but always longed to get my hands on a retrospective collection of his poetry and prose. I recently discovered this collection and checked it out from the local university library. It was like discovering lost treasure. I'll now be purchasing my own copy. Buy this if you truly want to hear one the great voices of contemporary poetry.
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Jim Dodge waxes poetic
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such energy such verve
twiisted humr
sweetness
raging against aging and death
only Jim Dodge could write a book of poetry i could read cover to cover
twiisted humr
sweetness
raging against aging and death
only Jim Dodge could write a book of poetry i could read cover to cover
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