Reflections on the Year of the Great Flood
Pekitanoui Publications, 58 pages, 1994
Out of print.
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INTRODUCTION
What happens when the rivers we live beside swell out of their banks, as the did in the nation’s heartland in the summer of 1993, and we find ourselves wet up to our knees, and then to our chests and chins? What happens when the door knob to the post office is below the still rising waters and we find ourselves dreaming about murky depths even after we have reached higher ground, and the newspaper, the radio and television are projecting ever higher apocalyptic crests?
What happens in part is that our imaginations begins working overtime, attempting to accommodate and understand the magnitude of houses and towns being washed away, of a twenty minute drive to work that now takes four hours, of Lear jets turned into winged canoes, of coffins resurrected from their tranquil resting places, of trying to stop a river with fifty pound bags of sand.
What we are seeking is a context that will help us explain this phenomenon, and that is what all the writers in this anthology have done.
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