Poems, Essays, and Stories
Michael Delp
Illustrations by Ladislav R. Hanka
Great Lakes Books Series
$17.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2390-X
98 pages
4 illustrations
1992
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the Influence of Water Poems, Essays, and Stories Michael Delp Illustrations by Ladislav R. Hanka |
Although the theme is fly fishing, this book is really about the more esoteric, spiritual aspects of fishing. Through his poetry, essays and short fiction, Delp writes about being haunted by fishing, about being taken over, literally, but the desire to fish and spend time alone on trout streams. He describes the experience as "a pause, a deep breath in the crush of living. It seems incredibly simple, yet trout fishing illuminates an inner life, asks the mind and body to give themselves over to another power." Under the Influence of Water is about moments—how time goes away on a river. It's about waking up and finding out that what runs through your veins is river water mixed with blood. It's also about trying to find the courage to one day stand in a river and admit your life. Delp says that's what happens when you fly fish. . . you get your life back, if only for a few moments. When you go back to your other life, the river is still with you. If it's not, then you haven't really been on a river. | "Honest,
innocent and lusting—by turns abstract and then specific, in the manner
of all loves. Delp hears, sees, tastes and writes about another world, one
that he sees just at the edge of the trees, just into the shadows. This
book was written by a man with a clean heart."—Rick Bass |
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