Of Blood and Rivers
A Book of Elegies
$36.66
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
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 Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814353417 |
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| ISBN-10: | 081435341X |
| Author: | Michael Delp, Nick Bozanic |
| Publisher: | Wayne State University Press |
| Imprint: | Wayne State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Made in Michigan Writers Series |
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Critics Review
Profound yet approachable, the elegiac poems contained in Of Blood and Rivers pay reverence to the insight and solace that can be found in the natural world.
– “Foreword Reviews, starred review”Michael Delp
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.
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