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Nauen has written an epic masterwork in praise of the lyric impulse. Wide-eyed and knowing, So Late into the Night calls to the bewilderment we feel so early in the new century. This is one of the great long poems of our day, to be set next to W.C. Williams' Spring and All, and Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Andrei Codrescu, author of\u00a0<em>The Poetry Lesson<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Just when I thought who could possibly care about \u201cthe book-length poem,\u201d Elinor Nauen\u2019s<em>\u00a0So Late into the Night<\/em> peels up to the curb \u2014 and cannily using Byron\u2019s worldly rhyme scheme, ottava rima, she whisks us right in. So Late is a particular poem, about the exact life of being a poet and writer, about the abiding allure of sex and love especially enduring love, about being a spouse, dare I say wife, and about loving your man, about baseball and god, and finally making it abundantly clear that Elinor Nauen mainly bothers herself about people and that her god is just fine with that. A proud Jew, she tells us that burning letters created the world and So Late into the Night reinstates that miracle, a sing-along road trip about being alive.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Eileen Myles, author of\u00a0<em>Inferno<\/em>\u00a0(a poet\u2019s novel)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Elinor Nauen continues her reign as the exalted wordsmith, whether it be poetry, prose or watching a baseball game of her favorite shortstop bending over in a fielding position.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Billy Sample, writer and former Major League Baseball player<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-849\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Elinor-Nauen-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Elinor Nauen\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Elinor Nauen<\/strong> has written or edited\u00a0<em>Cars and Other Poems, American Guys, Diamonds Are a Girl\u2019s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball, Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars and the Road<\/em>, and several chapbooks.\u00a0<em>My Marriage A to Z: A Big-City Romance<\/em>\u00a0was published by\u00a0<em>Cinco Puntos Press<\/em>\u00a0in Spring 2012. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_688_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><strong>III. Pink Highways<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nNow it\u2019s time to shout \u201cAllons! Come with me!\u201d<BR>\r\nAs we hit the road, see the USA<BR>\r\nBy way of auto and thumb. My hobby<BR>\r\nIs driving, but in an earlier day<BR>\r\nIt was my life. If invited, I\u2019d be<BR>\r\nAvid to split, or I\u2019d spirit away<BR>\r\nAlone. I had friends I was devoted<BR>\r\nTo all over the land, and I toted<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nMyself often to see them. No money<BR>\r\nSo I usually hitchhiked. I might veer<BR>\r\nOff for weeks or months on a journey,<BR>\r\nOr rumba a thousand miles in a mere<BR>\r\nWeekend. Motion was all I wanted. Funny,<BR>\r\nI don\u2019t feel that different now \u2014 to steer<BR>\r\nWith no output still seems the ideal life<BR>\r\nAlthough these days I\u2019m a worker and wife.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nA few summers back I drove with Becky<BR>\r\nFrom Eugene, Oregon, to the East Coast.<BR>\r\nThat is, with Becky and her two wacky<BR>\r\nSpringer spaniels, Emma and Jake. Foremost<BR>\r\nQuality of springers is anarchy<BR>\r\nOf attention and compliance. Milquetoast \u2014<BR>\r\nNot them. These dogs need to be tended to<BR>\r\nAll the time or it\u2019s a traveling zoo.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nSpringer spaniels are white dogs with brown, black<BR>\r\nOr liver-hued patches and silky hair.<BR>\r\nExcitable? Understatement! They lack<BR>\r\nDecorum! Insanely friendly, with rare<BR>\r\nJoy. We had to stop often, to unpack<BR>\r\nLeashes, collars, dishes and let them tear<BR>\r\nAfter birds. They\u2019re pointers, who spring straight up<BR>\r\nOff the ground (hence the name), even as pups.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nWe\u2019re packing to leave Oregon. \u201cOh god<BR>\r\nI hate change,\u201d Becky says with a deep sigh.<BR>\r\nShe\u2019s picking up quarters and nickels, dod-<BR>\r\nDering around her little house, so I<BR>\r\nAm not certain which \u201cchange\u201d she means. A nod<BR>\r\nTo the dogs. They leap in the car \u2014 they\u2019d die<BR>\r\nRather than be left. And two \u201cgirls\u201d alone \u2014<BR>\r\nWe need these savage pups as chaperone.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nBecky\u2019s traveling trick: \u201cI\u2019m taking all<BR>\r\nMy oldest underwear \u2014 the crappy stuff<BR>\r\nThat\u2019s stretched-out and unsightly and fall-<BR>\r\nIng apart, and every day I\u2019ll slough<BR>\r\nIt off.\u201d She flings her arms to show the sprawl-<BR>\r\nIng pleasure of America rebuff-<BR>\r\nIng her panties. We also like driving<BR>\r\nFor its inertia in the guise of moving,<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nAnd \u2018cause it\u2019s a daydream you can follow<BR>\r\nTo its end (assuming you\u2019re away long<BR>\r\nEnough) and because we don\u2019t have to go<BR>\r\nOver the Throgs Neck Bridge. I trust the throng<BR>\r\nOf driving gods to get us home. My beau<BR>\r\nIs a ton of real steel, singing and strong.<BR>\r\nIt pulls me like kids to a holiday.<BR>\r\nI have no advice for the highway.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI love the highway for its industrial<BR>\r\nDriving, its ramalamadingdong.<BR>\r\nBut the pink highways \u2014 the skinny radial<BR>\r\nRoads \u2014 are pretty and soothing too, singsong<BR>\r\nEasy driving. Many folks take parochial<BR>\r\nPride in staying off the freeway. Less headstrong,<BR>\r\nI don\u2019t care, I like any road I\u2019m on.<BR>\r\nNever an ugly duckling, always a swan.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nBut now we\u2019re glad to be off the highway \u2014<BR>\r\nAlso called freeway; in South Dakota,<BR>\r\nInterstate; in Michigan, expressway.<BR>\r\nRoute 11 north to Walla Walla,<BR>\r\nWashington. The cool thing here is that state<BR>\r\nRoad numbers are in George\u2019s head. What a<BR>\r\nGreat country, full of towns with such names as<BR>\r\nWalla Walla, Pukwana and Ramses.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nMe \u2019n\u2019 U Deli in Mapleton, OR.<BR>\r\nWild Winds, which I assumed was a peerless<BR>\r\nRoad sign. Nope, gated community, Flor-<BR>\r\nEnce, OR. Autopia \u2014 I sigh in bliss.<BR>\r\nThistle Dew Antiques. The Pink Hole in Or-<BR>\r\nOfino. Fort Fizzle. Thrill-Ville U.S.-<BR>\r\nA., an amusement park. InstaLawn<BR>\r\nBack in Eugene: \u201cWe keep rollin\u2019 a lawn.\u201d<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI was happy in Musselshell County<BR>\r\nTo indulge a hotel hobby \u2014 to \u201cfix\u201d<BR>\r\nThe art. On woodland scenes (firs and Mounties),<BR>\r\nI draw dead dogs and peeing men, a mix<BR>\r\nOf subjects that is easy (a bounty<BR>\r\nFor bad artists) and, I daydream, graphics<BR>\r\nThat may dissuade with my fiddle-faddle<BR>\r\nThe designs of someone suicidal.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nIn Montana, an older gentleman<BR>\r\nWith a springer fell for Beck. You\u2019re it, he<BR>\r\nCried, come be my bride, we\u2019ll live in my van<BR>\r\nWith our dogs. She declined. Though I could see<BR>\r\nWhy, I urged yes, with half a mind to can<BR>\r\nOur trip: Imagine two hideously<BR>\r\nHyperactive kids in a small plane. You\u2019ll<BR>\r\nWant to bail. One good point \u2014 these dogs don\u2019t drool.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nIn the old days you could hop on a plane<BR>\r\nAn hour after the thought occurred to you<BR>\r\nTo go somewhere; you didn\u2019t have to pay<BR>\r\nFour times as much as those people who knew<BR>\r\nSeven, fourteen, thirty days ahead that they<BR>\r\nIntended a journey. One time I blew<BR>\r\nUp Johnny\u2019s computer. In a panic<BR>\r\nDecided to flee to Maine and Janet.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nFast taxi to LaGuardia airport.<BR>\r\nWhere I see an archetype from any<BR>\r\nYear: A man pats himself down for his passport;<BR>\r\nSome folks are reading, some sleeping; many<BR>\r\nEye the overhead TV. The sport<BR>\r\nI\u2019ve long relished of leaving town when e-<BR>\r\nVents grabbed me is booming. How great it is<BR>\r\nTo have planes like autos at my service.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI called Janet: \u201cWhat\u2019s going on tonight?\u201d<BR>\r\n\u201cThe gang\u2019s in Hancock,\u201d she said, \u201cotherwise<BR>\r\nJust hanging out.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m on my way. It might<BR>\r\nBe Bar Harbor \u2014 wherever the plane flies.\u201d<BR>\r\nIn an hour I was enroute, and that night<BR>\r\nI partied. 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