The very definition of Exuberance, life squeezed of life's juices drop by drop. each lovely female bottom lovingly observed and graded. every delectable morsel chewed to digestive ecstasy; wine and bourbon straining like blossoms in springtime; trout, bear, javelina and ravens known personally; rivers encountered both above and within; genuine tears evoked by dogs past; appetites that won't be denied; sentences that strike like rattlesnakes; that lone, probing eye that even Galileo would have envied. A Man in the old sense, disappearing, content with love, nature and war; what writer could hope to be anything more? - mce
Jim Harrison is one of the best Poet/Novelists writing in the US today. Try his poems first. Most know him from *Legends of the Fall*. a mediocre movie, but a masterful novella.