I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the mirror and say, “I am getting old,” but Shakespeare looks in the mirror and says, “Devouring Time, blunt thou thy lion’s paws.”
—JIM HARRISON, from the documentary
The Practice of the Wild
Any portrait of the artist must overcome the limit of a, was a writer, a human being, with multiple dimensions: husband, father, friend, fisherman, bird-watcher, dog lover, cook, gourmand, wine enthusiast, among many other roles. He penned screenplays, emails, and more than a dozen novels and novellas, but I think in his heart he was always first a poet.
