27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989609219 ISBN 13: 9780989609210

Publisher: Eno Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry is the latest in Eno's popular series of local anthologies. The book showcases the literary life of one of North Carolina's most populous city by featuring the works of more than two dozen hometown writers. The result is a mosaic of perspectives about life in Greensboro in a variety of genres--journalism, history, fiction, poetry, and more. 

Contributors include Fred Chappell, Michael Parker, Ann Deagon, Maria Johnson, Ed Cone, Veronica Grossi, Lee Zacharias, Joya Wesley, Stuart Dischell, Quinn Dalton, Linda Beatrice Brown, Jeri Rowe, Allen Johnson, Jim Schlosser, Richard Zweigenhaft, Diya Abdo, Val Neiman, Logie Meachem, and others.

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Review:

Through the eyes of fiction writers, poets and journalists in 27 Views of Greensboro, we see Greensboro s neighborhoods and the neighbors who make them what they are including parts of the city that have fallen on hard times, and ones that have experienced something of a rebirth. We see the charm of parks and natural areas that sustain the city dwellers. Michael Parker, the novelist, enjoys running on the watershed trails just north of the city. Quinn Dalton, fiction writer, shares her fascination with the two tigers that live at the Greensboro Science Center near her home and that seem to think of her children as potential prey. The incomparable poet and novelist Fred Chappell casts his discerning eye on the people who take refuge at the Green Valley Grill at the O. Henry Hotel during an ice storm. Jeri Rowe, a longtime columnist for the News & Record, tells the What-a-Burger story, and Katie Saintsing, of Our State magazine, relates how she grew up behind the counter of Maxie B s bakery.

Admirably, the book confronts head-on the reality that beneath the placid, white-bread surface, Greensboro has a history that includes the sit-ins at Woolworth s in 1960 and the Klan-Nazi Massacre in 1979. Another reality is that those events that thrust Greensboro onto the nation s front pages were not unrelated to the softer, insidious racial discrimination that was long a way of life in genteel Greensboro. In Our House Has Two Stories, Allen Johnson, now the editorial page editor of Greensboro s daily newspaper, writes matter-of-factly and thoughtfully about the nice white family that sold a brick home in Woodmere Park to his black parents when he was 11, because blacks were moving into the neighborhood and they needed to leave. Linda Beatrice Brown, author of fiction and nonfiction, titles her essay A Nice Nasty Town. --From Greensboro.com

Eno publishers has two more city-featured books out in its local anthology series for residents and visitors alike. 27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetryfeatures contemporary writers who create a sense of place (and also explain why Greensboro is nicknamed The Gate City ). From the iconic civil rights struggle to the recent revitalization of downtown, the writers explore Greensboro through the lens of history, storytelling and memoir. With an introduction by novelist Marianne Gingher, the book includes works by Allen Johnson, Lorraine Ahearn, Tina Firesheets, Linda Beatrice Brown, Jeri Rowe, Logie Meachum, Val Nieman, Diya Abdo, Ann Deagon, Lee Zacharias, Drew Perry, Quinn Dalton and others. --Carolina Country, July 2015

About this edition

• Publisher: Eno Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0989609219
• ISBN 13: 9780989609210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200