Product Description: From childhood memories of the local Shad Festival, his father crafting bamboo fly rods, to his favorite trout streams, fish and fly fishing have been integral to the poet s life. These poems bring all this to life and leave the reader wanting more...read more

Product Description: Primal images recur in timeless poems that move between the worlds of physical experience, symbol, and myth. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Humes employs language that is always direct, full of zinnias and mine acid, bakery trucks, red-tailed hawks, and maggots. Out of these concrete images, he builds structural and emotional tensions that give his poems a powerful presence...read more