The Last Good Water
Prose and Poetry, 1988-2003
By Michael Delp
Paper - 9780814331712
Price: $21.95s
Published 2003
Pages: 144
Subjects: Regional Studies: Literature
Series: Great Lakes Books Series
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Description
Delp’s writing is richly nuanced and sharply imaged with an authenticity that comes only from someone native to such experiences. His engaging portraits of Michigan, its freshwater landscapes, and their many invocations can function as metaphor for larger philosophical and ecological issues, but the first aim of The Last Good Water is to draw readers back to nature and allow them to relish its splendor. This collection is an important addition to the library of the creative, the ecocritical, and above all, the outdoorsmen and women of the Midwest.
Published by Wayne State University Press
Author(s)
Michael Delp is an instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts and author of The Coast of Nowhere: Meditations on Rivers, Lakes, and Streams (Wayne State University Press, 1998), Under the Influence of Water: Poems, Essays, and Stories (Wayne State University Press, 1992), and Over the Graves of Horses (Wayne State University Press, 1988).
Other Books by Michael Delp: New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, Under the Influence of Water: Poems, Essays, and Stories, Over the Graves of Horses, Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast, The Coast of Nowhere: Meditations on Rivers, Lakes, and Streams,
Reviews
"No writer is more at one with the river than Michael Delp. It is as if he emerges from mud and rock, the very soul of moving water, to speak its words, to sing its songs. He is a true mystic, a celebrant of life on this earth, and The Last Good Water is his testimony."
— Judith Minty
“Michael Delp must be proclaimed the King of moving water. I have long been an ardent fan of both his poetry and prose and in The Last Good Water we have a marvelous collection of his work.”
— Jim Harrison