Of Blood and Rivers: A Book of Elegies - Couverture souple

Delp, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081435341X ISBN 13 : 9780814353417

Editeur : Wayne State University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Meditations on grief and the propulsive power of nature to invite one to navigate the territory of loss.

One of the poems written out of Michael Delp's experience with grief begins "At first a koan, "What to be done?" then a mantra, finally a prayer said into flowing water, because so many things bleed, each individual kind of pain like a fire coming in unseen from far off, then the searing begins"

As heard in the sample, the eighty-four elegiac poems in this book navigate through and beyond loss, grief, love, and the joy of being present in the moment. Inspired by the movement of river water, these poems metabolize loss in the ways our bodies come to know that some questions have no answers. Taken together as one, this prose poem emerges as a meditation, a prayer where grief balances love and body balances spirit. Loss comes to us all. This book bears forth the wisdom of looking to the stars for solace, the deep quiet of connecting to the natural world, remaining grounded in our own living bodies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Delp is the former director of creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy, where he received multiple awards from the National Foundation for the Arts for teaching excellence. He is the award-winning author of several works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including The Mad Angler: Poems. He is coeditor emeritus of the Made in Michigan Writers Series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wayne State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081435341X
• ISBN 13: 9780814353417
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible