a ISBN 0-8207-0294-3

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number CT275.H628345

b Item number A3 1998

a Dewey Classification 974.8/043/092

a Dewey Classification B

a Personal name Hodges Elizabeth

d Dates associated with a name 1953

a Title What the river means /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Elizabeth Hodges.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Pittsburgh, PA :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Duquesne University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1998.

a Extent xiv, 249 p. ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a Title Emerging writers in creative nonfiction

a Formatted contents note Preface: Thoughts and Thanks -- Sect. I. Faces Pouring Past Me Talking. My Grandfather and the Fish. Baptism I - Vegetable Man. Decapitating Crocuses on Easter Morning. Baptism II - My Grandmother and the Colonel. Death by African Violet -- Sect. II. Learning to Name. What the River Meant. Baptism III - Learning to Name. Blood and Blue Willow. Baptism IV - Jim Brew. Dreams of Push-Button Eyes. Radio Wars. The Second Time I Almost Died. Baptism V - Gloria Sings. Before the Storm -- Sect. III. To Feel the Cords that Bind. Crossing with Deer, Providence Road. The World When We Are Not In It. What the River Means.