Black River Dreams is a celebration of the fly fishing life. It
is also a record of human awakening. Alternately lyrical and
meditative, mystical and sensuous, each of these sixteen 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 experience of sitting on
the river bank with a dear old friend who, moments earlier, told him he
had cancer; or the many golden evenings he and his wife cast big dry
flies to Apache trout cruising in the dim mountain light, he brings an
ecologically informed, poetic sensibility to all of his fly fishing
encounters.
