The Last Good Water

by Delp, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780814331712
• ISBN10: 0814331718
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr

Author Biography

Michael Delp is an instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts

Table of Contents

What It Is	1	(4)
THE MANIFESTO OF RIVERS
Building Rivers	5	(2)
Inner Fishing	7	(3)
Riverdog	10	(2)
Casting: A Meditation	12	(2)
River Gods	14	(5)
TROLLING FOR HOME
The Language of Water	19	(1)
Fishing for the Dead	20	(2)
Fishing the Dream	22	(2)
Nightfishing at the Homestead Dam	24	(1)
Trolling for Home	25	(1)
The Mad Angler's Manifesto	26	(2)
The Dream of the Mad Angler	28	(1)
The Mad Angler Confesses	29	(1)
The Mad Angler in the Cathedral	30	(1)
The Epiphany of the Mad Angler	31	(1)
Advice of the Mad Angler	32	(1)
The Mad Angler on the Expressway	33	(1)
Going North	34	(1)
River Gods	35	(1)
Diving for My Father	36	(1)
Oba Lake, Ontario	37	(2)
River Ghazals	39	(7)
A Last Poem: The Deaths of Fathers	46	(3)
DRIFTING THE COASTLINES
The Coast of Nowhere	49	(1)
The Text of the River	50	(2)
River: Finding the Way North	52	(5)
The River Everywhere	57	(1)
The Dream Rivers	58	(2)
The River Inside	60	(7)
WADING THE DARKER CURRENT
Out for Blood	67	(5)
The Legacy of Worms	72	(2)
Steelhead Dreams	74	(3)
Fishing the Winter River	77	(4)
The Last Good Water	81	(3)
The Wager	84	(3)
What My Father Told Me	87	(7)
Last Pool	94