Long Like a River

Schoenberger generates big emotions with small, delicate strokes. Her images are economical, natural, and somehow sensibleûthey're not just beautiful, they're also smart.ûPublishers WeeklyMany rivers run through Nancy Schoenberger's third collection of poems,Long Like a River. From the Clark Fork ("its full house of trout the dream of a summer noon"), to the Mississippi ("long as its Indian name"), to the Amazon and Napo Rivers, these poems explore the poet's Deep South roots, plumbing memory and desire and paying homage along the way to Theodore Roethke and George Seferis.

Nancy Schoenberger teaches creative and nonfiction writing at The College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Acknowledgments
Dear Boy	p. 3
Long Like a River	p. 5
Highway to New Orleans	p. 7
Living on the River	p. 10
The Blue Hour	p. 11
War Years: Baton Rouge, 1972	p. 12
Nobody Knew	p. 14
Deer Heart	p. 16
Spring Maddens Animals	p. 17
Common American Crow	p. 18
Recipe	p. 20
Revolt of Our Late Spring Flowers	p. 24
Rivers and Histories	p. 27
"The Garden Is a River Flowing South"	p. 31
Amazonia: "My Brother the Vine Is Glad"	p. 33
Birth of Venus: "The Sea's Unequal Lengths Announced Thy Birth"	p. 35
The Expulsion: "Hath the Rain a Father?"	p. 36
Nathaniel Hawthorne in Hell	p. 39
Arabella Sparrow	p. 40
Large Black Dog	p. 43
Wheat: Four Paintings by Van Gogh	p. 44
In Yellow	p. 46
Complacency of a Room	p. 47
Storyville: Woman with Birds	p. 48
Woman Turning Away	p. 50
The Girl Who Gave Up Her Hands	p. 51
The Grimpen Mire	p. 53
The Girls with Their Tall Combs	p. 56
Moon	p. 61
Civilization Comes Out of the Sea	p. 62
Men Were Swimming	p. 64
Lavish City	p. 65
Blanched Almonds	p. 66
The Great Indifference: Clouds Billowing Up	p. 67
The Wood Corpse	p. 69
Girl's Bed	p. 72
The Prodigal	p. 73
The Owls of Lesbos	p. 74
Fantasia in F Minor	p. 76
Damp Nights	p. 77
A Moon of One's Own	p. 78
Notes	p. 79
About the Author	p. 81
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