Old North - Softcover

Reevy, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604542233 ISBN 13: 9781604542233

Publisher: Iris Press, 2013

Synopsis

Old North by Tony Reevy is a book of poems about the places, history and culture of North Carolina.

About this title

Review

Hard to fit great big North Carolina into a book of poems, yet Tony Reevy has flat done it. Reevy is particularly gifted at assaying ways in which ours is a haunted land, as he takes us from the ghost lights at Brown Mountain, past a phantom cafe in tobacco town, all the way down to a conjure scene in the old Southport burying ground. Quite a marvelous tour of place and spirit!
--Bland Simpson,
Into the Sound Country and The Coasts of Carolina

What I like about Tony Reevy's Old North is the wonderful journey--and the stops along the way over and around North Carolina, the "Old North State." Reevy's poetry settles into actual places, as he leads us on a tour from the western mountains through the Piedmont, east to Durham, "tobacco town," southeast to Williamston and Beaufort to the coast and "Swan Quarter Landing." What poetry of document and shine! Old North is a brilliant achievement!
--Shelby Stephenson
Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave Girl

Durham Herald Sun

A poet's view of the Bull City

Durham figures prominently in UNC professor Tony Reevy's new collection of poems, "Old North" (Iris Press, $14). Reevy groups this collection of poems about North Carolina under the standard geographical locations of mountains, Piedmont and coast. He gives Durham a special section, titled "Tobacco Town/Tobacco County." Reevy's poems pay homage to the Eno River, Blind Boy Fuller, and other Bull City sites and historical figures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Iris Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604542233
• ISBN 13: 9781604542233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96