A Slow Moving Stream

In A Slow Moving Stream, poet Diane Moore follows the languid Bayou Teche from its source at Port Barre to Morgan City, Louisiana where it empties into the mighty Atchafalaya River, making a journey that traces Cajun origins in a lovely and sometimes lonely landscape. During the journey she unveils the characters and events of early Acadian settlements from the time the Cajuns fled their native Pisiguit, Nova Scotia to present-day oil wealthy Acadiana. This volume includes poems about the Great Flood of 1927, a Civil War battle near Franklin, Louisiana, descriptions of swamp life, and explores spiritual ties that have bound the people who built homes and enterprises along "a slow-moving stream" in one of the United States' most colorful cultures.