Cold Solstice Holidays . . .
December Brook
(NY 12 2018)
Open water remains. Cold, clear, high visibility no match for the fishes obscura.
Was that a trout? Was that a bass? Was it a reflection, of something else, something not even a fish? Daylight flies faster than the fisher.
Retired to the warm indoor, reading and the contemplation of visual art returns to front focus.
Moving Water by Dave Hall
Moving Water
by Dave Hall
hardcover, 50 pp.
Blaine Creek
Dave Hall, an artist of works in oil, has Moving Water give an illustrated meditation, poetry and brushwork combined, in a sublime 10-minutes of illuminated manuscript. Recommended.
Back Seat by Henry Hughes
Back Seat with Fish
by Henry Hughes
hardcover, 303 pp.
Skyhorse Publishing
Not to take a back seat, do take a Back Seat with Fish off the shelves and buy it. Don’t miss the opportunity to immerse with an American life lived in America’s northern corners, New York and Oregon, with the fishing haunting happily in its present attendance at all times in between. Recommended.
The Art of Angling and Fishing Stories edited by Henry Hughes
The Art of Angling
edited by Henry Hughes
hardcover, 256 pp.
Everyman’s Library, Alfred A. Knopf
The greater corpos (including, yet beyond the canon) gives a broad read in a pair, stories and poetry, presented in two attractive hardcover collected volumes edited by Dr. Hughes: The Art of Angling and Fishing Stories
Fishing Stories
edited by Henry Hughes
hardcover, 369 pp.
Everyman’s Library, Alfred A. Knopf
There are many, many literary angles as there are anglers, men, women, children who all still relish hours reading fish tales and rhymes pictured on the page in a quiet corner on a winter afternoon.
Happy Holidays.
— rPs 12 23 2018
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