Of Blood and Rivers by Michael Delp - ISBN: 9780814353417
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Nature’s flow guides through grief, finding solace and presence in loss.
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Of Blood and Rivers

A Book of Elegies

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    94 pages

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    6 October 2026

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Summary

Meditations on grief and the propulsive power of nature to move one through the sadness 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 nav…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780814353417
ISBN-10:081435341X
Author:Michael Delp, Nick Bozanic
Publisher:Wayne State University Press
Imprint:Wayne State University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:94
Release Date:6 October 2026
Dimensions:203mm x 127mm
Series:Made in Michigan Writers Series
About The Author

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. He is coeditor emeritus of the Made in Michigan Writers Series.

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