Still Upright & Headed Downstream: Collected River Writing by John Lane

For the last 40 years, John Lane has been writing poetry and prose about rivers from his home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to river destinations all over the world, but mostly in the Blue Ridge Mountains. This book presents his river writing chronologically alternating chapters of poetry with those of prose. "What a wondrous watery collection of essays and poems this is. John Lane is a master of combining moments of thrill and meditation, environmental ugliness and natural beauty; he is at home in a world where down is up and up is down. Follow this mad kayaker as he strings together one mad sentence after another." --Susan Fox Rogers. "John Lane is a teacher, and his essays and poems teach us just how much rivers matter. Rivers have stories to tell too, and Lane puts those stories into words. He understands the natural and human history of the rivers of the South and understands the culture of rivers at a deeply personal level." --Joe Pulliam. "If adventure is activity on one's per