Joe Survant

RAFTING RISE

Set in the central Kentucky basins of the Rough, Green, and Ohio rivers in 1916-17, this book joins the storytelling virtues of fiction with the intensity of the poetic lyric to reach a wider audience, including readers of poetry, lovers of good tales, and those interested in the small events of history recreated through the lives of carefully imagined characters.

Joe Survant is professor of English at Western Kentucky University, and is a former Kentucky Poet Laureate.