By Frank Soos,Kesler Woodward
ISBN-10: 0820320641
ISBN-13: 9780820320649
ISBN-10: 0820328359
ISBN-13: 9780820328355
After he was once passed an previous broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited numerous years sooner than he carefully undertook its recovery. That painstaking company turns into the critical metaphor and the unifying topic for the pleasing own essays offered here.
With sly wit and disarming candor, Soos recounts fly-fishing adventures that develop into issues of departure for wide-ranging ruminations at the better questions that hang-out him. Coming to phrases together with his new rod in “On in need of Everything,” Soos casts a skeptical eye at the engines of consumerism and muses at the paradox of the way a fishing rod that turns into too helpful ceases to be precious. “The Age of Imperfection” starts as a rueful account of his botched fix paintings yet quickly alterations into an insightful mirrored image at the seductiveness of perfection and finishes as an homage to the inventive strength that comes from error. In “Useful instruments” Soos takes a decidedly pessimistic examine the age-old quest to mix the nice with the attractive and concludes with an eloquent appreciation of an exceptional device positioned to an accidental use. “On His Slowness” bargains clean new perceptions in regards to the human expenses of the ever-accelerating speed of up to date lifestyles and the more and more exertions of resisting it. greater than a meditation on suicide, “Obituary with Bamboo Fly Rod” engages the problem of person human accountability and the last word query of “How to be” with equivalent elements humility and wonder.
This based quantity is handsomely illustrated with the full-color work of Alaskan artist Kesler Woodward. wealthy in knowledge and actual charm, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite is a particular and profitable e-book with wide-ranging appeal.
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