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Of Blood and Rivers: A Book of Elegies
Paperback
Series: Made in Michigan Writers
ISBN13: 9780814353417
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.
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