Michael Loderstedt: Why We Fished

poetry book for Michael Loderstedt / Redhawk Publications
with photographs by Michael Loderstedt

Michael Loderstedt’s poems and the photographs that accompany them draw the shifting heritages, dangers and joys that come with life on the coast of North Carolina. Mockingbirds, a household colander, a veritable catalog of lures, the death of a parent and humans’ native fear of snakes are all examined and raised to the light like a fisherman inspecting his catch. “We fished because we had to,” Loderstedt writes in the book’s title poem. These poems, like all good poems, arise from the sense that they had to be made.
—Al Maginnes

92 pages
6 x 9 inches