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Continuing their quest to free flyfishers from the trout-only addiction, "Pike on the Fly" authors Barry Reynolds and John Berryman lead a tour through the back alleys of flyfishing in search of everything from the common bluegill to the not-so-common white amur. They encourage you to leave overcrowded trout streams and instead fish warmwater rivers, municipal reservoirs, and farm ponds. More than anything, Barry and John want you to flyfish more often and closer to home.

The supposedly unapproachable walleye falls to Barry’s flyfishing skills, and he gives a methodical approach to catching largemouth and smallmouth bass, long a favorite of flyfishers. Without apology, Barry and John will even tell you how to catch the biggest fish you may find in local water—the common carp. Smart, spooky, and strong, carp are ignored by everyone except those who have already caught them.

There are fish to be caught on the fly wherever you live, and "Beyond Trout" will take you to the waters in your own backyard and teach you how to catch the fish that swim there. ... Read more

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The title says it all.
This book is a very good discertation on fly fishing for species other than trout.It covers warm water species, bass bluegill/sunfish, perch and crappie as well as other cool water species, like walleye and pike, and even includes catfish.The author covers each species in a seperate chapter.Covering items such as prefered habitat, spawning, water temperature, fishing methods, and fly recommendations.If you like to fly fish, but trout aren't readily available in your area, this book could give you some insight into fish you might not have considered as fly rod fish.

A great book
This book is a great place to start, or if you already have that is okay, in warmwater fly-fishing.The information is very helpful. A must for the angler who can't go to the trout stream every weekend and a local lake ismuch closer. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography ... Read more

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"Okay, Millie," I said to Stone's secretary. "I'll be right with you." I cleared the restricted notes and plans from my desk and locked them in the file cabinet, per regulations, and walked beside Millie to Stone's office. ... Read more

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This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction June 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. ... Read more

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In a February 1966 letter to her artistic confidant, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop tellingly grouped four midcentury poets: Lowell, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and herself. For Bishop--always wary of being pigeonholed and therefore reticent about naming her favorite contemporaries--it was a rare explicit acknowledgment of an informal but enduring artistic circle that has evaded the notice of literary journalists for more than forty years. Despite the private nature of their dialogue, the group's members--Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, and Berryman--left a compelling record of their mutual interchange and influence. Drawing on an extensive range of published and archival sources, Thomas Travisano traces these poets' creation of a surprisingly coherent postmodern aesthetic and defines its continuing influence on American poetry.

The refusal of this "midcentury quartet," as Travisano calls them, to voice a formalized doctrine, coupled with their intuitive way of working, has caused critics to miss the coherence of their project. Travisano argues that these poets are not only successors to Pound, Auden, Stevens, and Eliot but postmodern explorers in their own right. In forging their own aesthetic, characterized here as a postmodern mode of elegy, they encountered significant resistance from their immediate modernist mentors Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Marianne Moore.

Jarrell, whom others of the group regarded as a critic of particular genius, was first described as a post-modernist in a 1941 review by Ransom that Travisano cites as the earliest known use of the term. In Jarrell's review of Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle six years later, he named Lowell a postmodernist and identified traits, among them the use of pastiche, that are now considered by theorists such as Fredric Jameson as specifically postmodern. And Bishop's inventiveness allowed her to adapt a self-exploratory mode often, but imprecisely, termed confessional to challenging forms such as the double sonnet, villanelle, and sestina.

Each of these poets suffered a devastating loss during childhood and lived through the twentieth-century disasters of the Great Depression, World War II and the Holocaust, and the cold war. The continual tension in their poetry between subjectivity and form, claims Travisano, reflects the plight of the fractured individual in a postmodern world. By arguing so sharply for the importance of this circle, Midcentury Quartet is certain to redraw the map of postwar American poetry. ... Read more

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Enduring scholarship
Elegantly meant and beautifully worded, Thomas Travisano's book evinces his love for the poems of this quartet of poets.He does something that's rare, perhaps too rare, in modern literary scholarship--he considers theaesthetics and poetics inherent in the poets' work with a respect usuallyreserved for 'thematics.'His scholarship is a marvel of idea andinvention, the tone modest yet full of authority.Dr. Travisano is theperfect model for younger scholars in his stance toward his subject,reminding readers of the poets' greatness- the qualities of expression andin their complex relationships with their friends-without the self regardthat so often taints scholarly work.The four authors are alive inTravisano's prose; they couldn't have a better scholar on their side. ... Read more

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Illuminating and provocative reflections on poet John Berryman's life and career
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The essential collection of Ezra Pound’s poetry—newly expanded and annotated with essays byRichard Sieburth, T. S. Eliot, and John Berryman.This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are manyof the “stale creampuffs” (as Pound called them) of the 1949 edition. Instead,new emphasis has been laid on the interpenetration of original compositionand translation within Pound’s career. New features of this edition include thecomplete “Homage to Sextus Propertius” in its original lineation, early translations from Cavalcanti, Heine, and the troubadours, as well as late translationsof Sophocles, and the Confucian Odes.

As a lifelong expatriate, Pound parceled out his work to a variety of journalsin England, America, France, and Italy. This new edition takes account of thiscomplex publishing history by giving the poems in the chronological order oftheir original magazine publication. We can observe Pound as he first emergesonto the literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Ford’s English Review andHarriet Monroe’s Chicago-based Poetry, and then as an agent provocateur forthe avant-garde Little Review, Blast, and The Dial.

Unlike all previous selections, this volume provides annotation to all theearly poems as well as a running commentary on the later Cantos — indispensable to any reader wanting to follow Pound on his epic odyssey through ancientChina, medieval Provence, the Italian Renaissance, the early American Republic, and the darkness of the twentieth century. The editor, Richard Sieburth,provides a chronology of Pound’s life, a new preface, and an informative afterword, “Selecting Pound.” Also included in the appendix are T. S. Eliot’s and JohnBerryman’s original introductions to Pound’s Selected Poems. ... Read more

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Discover the secrets of flyfishing for carp—learn thehabits and habitats of these challenging fish, what flies they’lltake, and how to put those flies in the right place at the right timeto catch carp consistently.

Barry Reynolds and John Berryman, authors of "Pike on the Fly"and "Beyond Trout," have joined with Brad Befus to challenge youto take advantage of what is certainly the last, great, overlookedflyfishing resource in North America. Put aside your preconceptions,read "Carp on the Fly" with an open mind, and you’ll soon beflyfishing for big, strong, smart fish in water just minutes from yourhome. ... Read more

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THE definitive book on fly-fishing for carp!
This book is very thorough, covering the range of topics from carp behaviors to specific fly patterns and presentations.I'm very impressed with the amount of field experience and analysis that went into this book.I really think it will help any skill level of fly angler who is interested in targeting carp.Excellent content, and interesting to read!

Valuable Reference
Very instructive and comprehensive.Fly recipes with a brief mention of how to fish them.

This book make you want to go fisning
Carp on the fly is among the best how to books I have read. I burned through it in two sittings and really want to go hunt carp on the fly. I love its no nonsense approach to target this species a very easy and fun read.

Fascinating
I love the way the book is organized.It's very easy to follow.This book got me pumped up to go do some carp fishing on the fly rod.The carp is the closest thing I can get to a bonefish living in MN.If you want to have a blast catching fish that are huge and probably very close to where you live, this book has everything you need for fly carping.

You're Fishing For WHAT?
I can finally come out of the closet!Yes, I fish for Carp.Initially with bait but now with a fly rod.This book isa super introduction to the freshwater Bonefish.Carpfishing on the Fly has all you need to get started.Whether it's tackle, tactics or fly patterns you're looking for it's in this book.Of course, there is a great section on why to fish for carp as well as sections on the life cycle and biology of the Golden Salmon.Chances are good you'll find carp near where youlive.Grab this book and your fly rod and head for the water. ... Read more

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Master the basic techniques that will allow you to tie thousands of different patterns for fly fishing with speed, ease, and efficiency. In Basic Techniques for Successful Fly Tying, authors Befus and Berryman accelerate the learning curve by breaking down each of the individual fly-tying techniques step by step.

With simple instruction and more than 200 color photographs and illustrations, the authors:

* Set up shop with sound advice for materials, lighting, workbenches, vises, and other tools and equipment.
* Troubleshoot common problems that beginning flytyers encounter such as material selection, figuring out proportions, working with dubbing, and controlling the tying thread.
* Present tailing, hackling, winging, and dubbing techniques and more.

This straightforward instruction has helped thousands of people become successful flytyers. Experienced tyers will find the tips inside a valuable refresher on the basics, and beginners will learn how to tie like a pro. ... Read more

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Must have book for beginners
Whether you're taking tying lessons or venturing out on your own this is the book to have. It only "teaches" a few flies, but it does cover ( and very well, too) all the techniques you'll use on most recipes you may want to tie. Learn just about everything you need to know for dries, nymphs, wets and streamers. This book has a very good section on tying all the different types of wings you'll ever want to tie. It also has a fairly in depth review of the sometimes bewildering array of materials. An informative book and alot of fun working through the lessons.

An excellent and enthusiastically recommended training guide
Collaboratively written by fly-fishing experts Brad Befus and John Berryman, Basic Techniques For Successful Fly Tying: A Lesson By Lesson Approach is a meticulous, step-by-step, "user friendly" guide which is wonderfully illustrated with numerous, full-color, instructional photographs. Specifically divided into lesson plans that cover everything from different types of fly wings to dry flies to selecting the right materials and hackle, Basic Techniques for Successful Fly Tying is an excellent and enthusiastically recommended training guide for fly fishers from novice through intermediate skill levels.

BestBasic Fly Tying Manual Yet
As the title implies, this book covers a step by step basic approach to fly tying.After having read and tried, more than a dozen entry level books on this subject, all I can say is buy this book!
The authors take you step by step through each process, accumulating in a finished fly.They are meticulous in each step, repeating the last steps, while moving on to the next.
They also heed a valuable warning after each step, practice!
This book will not make you an instant fly tyer, nor is it meant to.It is designed to bring you along slowly, and methodically.
By far the best I have seen on the subject. ... Read more

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A publication announcing the University of Minnesota library collection of Berryman's manuscripts and source material. ... Read more

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Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, "After thirty Falls" is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new interest in this important figure with a group of original essays and appraisals by scholars from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States.Exploring such areas as the poet's engagements with Shakespeare and the American sonnet tradition, his use of the Trickster figure and the idea of performance in his poetics, it expands the interpretive framework by which Berryman may be evaluated and studied, and it will be of interest to students of modern American poetry at all levels.What makes the collection particularly valuable is its inclusion of previously unpublished material - including a translation of a poem by Catullus and excerpts from the poet's detailed notes on the life of Christ - thereby providing new contexts for future assessments of Berryman's contribution to the development of poetry, poetics, and the relationship between scholarship and other forms of writing in the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Not what they were after
The purpose of this book, says its editor, is to rekindle scholarly interest in John Berryman's work. So a group of Ph.D.s (mostly) in Literature, who have mined Berryman in various ways for years, assemble a book of critical essays to protect their brand. The effort ligitimates them, in their own eyes at least, but does little more than emphasize each one's favorite critical approach. They eschew linking his poems with his life, and, doing so, miss what Berryman was up to: Writing briography as intellectual history, intellectual history as biography, and the reaction to both by self passing through a particular time.

The contributors miss significance in Berryman's suicide, death by bridge; the importance of bridge as symbol for Berryman, connecting two worlds (vicarious and real, Europe and America, all the dualities); and their connection to Berryman's interest in Hart Crane, where bridges loom large and also fail to span. They have no explanation for Dream Song 113, which has baffled everyone, but for which there's a simple explanation--his first encounter with Feminism (before a word was coined for it) among college women who were his intellectual peers. Or that The Ball Poem foreshadows all that Berryman wrote. Or how loss is inevitable once one chooses to live in vicarious experience, as the vicarious is ever being displaced by the real, or how making that choice leads to using art to avoid hurt, or how that habit mutates into the theme of Berryman's work, the horror of existence. "They never find you out," he said, secure in his opinion of intellectualizing critics, who overlook even the importance of his feeling Irish and his relation to Joyce. Without biography, Berryman's poetry sublimates like ice to vapor.

Being literary persons, the authors overlook other approaches. Berryman's poems and behavior can be viewed as manifestations of the mania of acute alcoholism, a well documented pathology. So mythic, monomythic, prosodic, and theodisic essays are found here, but none on Psychology. The literary approaches that are deployed aren't suitably audacious, given their subject: none tries to evaluate Berryman through a persona, as if Auden or Yeats. There's no fun here, duty only, so the authors fail to communicate their enthusiam and lapse to the pedestrian.

This book manifests what criticism has become--a line in the vita, self-indulgence or self-amusement by self-absorbed specialists--not illumination of a text. The parochial result will produce the opposite of what its contributors had in mind, revived interest in their speciality. What Berryman scholarship needs is a critical concordance that connects his work to his life. Without it, his poems will grow as obscure as his critics. ... Read more