Title: The drownt boy
First published: 1994
Description: It had been many years since Art Homer had spent time in the region where he grew up as the child of subsistence farmers. In this beautifully written true tale, Homer returns to the Missouri Ozarks with his stepson, Reese, for a three-day canoe trip down the recently flooded Current River. As rain threatens to erupt again and the two prepare for their uncertain trip down the swollen river, a man in a straw hat pulls up to them on the gravel bar. "Did they find that drownt boy yet?" he calls.

So begins an extraordinary trip down a dangerous river, toward unforeseen adventures and into the swirling recesses of memory.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Childhood and youth, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Poets, American, Social life and customs, Ozark mountains region
Places: Ellington (Mo.), Missouri, Ozark Mountains Region
People: Art Homer
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3558.O4466 Z467 1994