BLACK RIVER DREAMS. By Maximilian Werner.

2010 1st edition. 8vo (159 x 240mm). Ppxiv,158. B/w frontispiece photograph. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Maximilian Werner teaches writing at the University of Utah and is a fly fisherman of long standing. In this book he presents sixteen essays, "Alternately lyrical and meditative, mystical and sensuous, each of these ...essays represents an exploration of the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, trout and people, ghosts and dreams. Whether Mr. Werner is describing his first and last time fly fishing as a boy on a stream in northern Maine; ...or the many golden evenings he and his wife cast big dry flies to Apache trout cruising in the dim mountain light, Mr. Werner brings an ecologically informed, poetic sensibility to all of his fly fishing encounters."