Hodges Elizabeth 1953

What the river means / Elizabeth Hodges. - Pittsburgh, PA : Duquesne University Press, 1998. - xiv, 249 p. ; 23 cm. - Emerging writers in creative nonfiction .

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.

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Hodges Elizabeth 1953


Pennsylvania--Biography
Maryland--Biography
Severn River Md--Description and travel

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