News at Eleven: The beauty of [James A.] Emanuel's poem

resides in its first and last stanzas, where he weaves the arts of fishing and writing unlike any other artist. In the first stanza, he writes, 'I fish for words to say what I fish for, half-catch sometimes,' which raises this important question: Why do we fish? To catch fish or to catch words and stories? Emanuel reminds us that fishing and writing are bookends on the same odyssey, a search for personal, communal, societal, and universal meaning that helps define our existence.

from PopMatters: The Poetry of Fishing: James A. Emanuel

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