{"product_id":"the-theory-and-practice-of-rivers-9781556597183","title":"The Theory and Practice of Rivers","description":"\u003cb\u003eJim Harrison's \u003ci\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e returns to print as a celebratory, stand-alone volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both an elegy, inspired by the death of Harrison's teenage niece, and a \"loose memoir\" teeming with thoughts and images that leap intuitively across subjects, recalling myriad experiences, places, and encounters. A handwritten draft of the title poem, retrieved from Harrison's extensive literary archive, provides a rare and intimate window into his surging creative process. As \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e magazine puts it, \u003ci\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with \"moving water, the search for consolation and meaning in the sublime rightness of wild landscape.\" This contemporary classic speaks to the rivers and cascades in all of us, the ceaseless motion by which our lives are determined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e (1937-2016) was the author of over three dozen books, including\u003ci\u003e Legends of the Fall and Dalva\u003c\/i\u003e, and served as the food columnist for the magazines \u003ci\u003eBrick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e. He published fourteen volumes of poetry, the final being \u003ci\u003eDead Man's Float\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. As a young poet he co-edited \u003ci\u003eSumac\u003c\/i\u003e magazine with fellow poet Dan Gerber, and earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2007, he was elected into the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Regarding his most beloved art form, he wrote: \"Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.\" Jim Harrison certainly spoke the language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e's nonfiction is capacious and innovative. She has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Most known for \u003ci\u003eOrwell's Roses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRecollections of My Nonexistence\u003c\/i\u003e, Solnit travels widely, sharing her original blends of memoir, scholarship, geography, and criticism. Her voice is singular and polyphonic, with the logistical talents of a prose writer and the concision of a lyric poet. She is an intersectional feminist and supports diverse causes, having founded Not Too Late, a climate project. An advocate of public education, she attended the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, and has lived as a journalist, historian, activist, and independent writer since 1988. A contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and a frequent writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, she is based in San Francisco, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51282268029202,"sku":"9781556597183","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d84debd9-e0e0-4ef6-8608-2fbec7a982fa.jpg?v=1747215204","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-theory-and-practice-of-rivers-9781556597183","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}