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csp-370	Costlow, Jane	Words, River, Changes: Writing Lewiston, Maine	2022	17	.pdf	application/pdf	8656	430	62	254–270 https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2022.6.2.174 Received 10 March 2022 © 2022 Jane Costlow Accepted 20 May 2022 jcostlow@bates.edu Published online 11 July 2022 ESSAY Words, River, Changes: Writing Lewiston, Maine Jane Costlow Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, USA ABSTRACT This essay describes and reflects on the central river of a small post- industrial city in Maine (USA), interweaving the author’s experience of place with the voices of three local poets, as a way of considering how the city and its river have been represented—as pastoral, abject, beautiful, and hybrid. KEYWORDS Androscoggin River, Lewiston Maine, Marsden Hartley, Robert Chute, Susann Pelletier, hybrid, abject, pastoral There is something unfathomably essential about continually perceiving things anew [...] Over the past two decades groups within downtown Lewiston have worked hard to elevate the voices of those actually living within reach of the river, in those poorest-in-Maine census tracts.	cache/csp-370.pdf	txt/csp-370.txt