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Eric Trethewey, originally from Nova Scotia, was a member of the Creative Writing faculty at Hollins University in Virginia. After earning his B.A. at the University of Kentucky, Trethewey continued his education, earning an M.A. at the University of New Orleans and a PhD at Tulane University. He authored five collections of poems: Dreaming of Rivers (1984), Evening Knowledge (1991), The Long Road Home (1994), Songs and Lamentations (2004), and Heart's Hornbook (2004). Evening Knowledge was the winner of the 1990 Virginia Prize for Poetry. In addition to poetry, Trethewey also wrote a screenplay, The Home Waltz, which won the Virginia Governor's Screenplay Competition. His daughter, Natasha Trethewey, was a frequent subject of his writing; in turn, she became an accomplished poet in her own right -- worthy of consideration and research beyond this mere mention -- and so rendered her father in her own work.
Eric Trethewey passed away in the fall of 2014.
You've been dreaming of rivers.
you know it doesn't end here.
Published in Dreaming of Rivers. (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1984).
Critical Analysis: Dreamt Nostalgia in Eric Trethewey's "Dreaming of Rivers"
Eric Trethewey’s poem “Dreaming of Rivers” explores the quick, flowing images of a dream experienced by the speaker. Trethewey's opening line indicates the setting of the poem, wherein the speaker's dream occurs on an “autumn night” (1). “Dreaming of Rivers” becomes increasingly concerned with the reality of dream logic, as Trethewey's speaker strives to maintain the dream's vivacity before it slips into the vault of memory. Trethewey's speaker “bob[s] up from sleep” (2) and is “dazed” (4), capturing the moment between memory and forgetting.
In this moment, the speaker crosses from the innocence of childhood into the complexity of adulthood. While “memory stammers” (41), the speaker's dreams fill the gap: the river's rush becomes inevitable, much like the speaker's maturity as he becomes ensnared in a “circle of loss” (43).
you know it doesn't end here (68-75).
The dream continues through to waking and daylight, while the scene becomes “golden in the sun” (73). With these closing lines of nostalgia, Trethewey ensures that the divide between dream and memory remains ambiguous beyond the poem's close.
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