27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry, by Celia Rivenbark
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27 Views of Wilmington: The Port 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 popular cities by featuring the works of more than two dozen hometown writers. The result is a mosaic of perspectives about life in the Port City in a variety of genres--journalism, history, fiction, poetry, and more. To date, contributors include Wiley Cash, Nan Graham, Jason Mott, Gwenyfar Rohler, Melodie Homer, Kevin Mauer, Virginia Holman, Dana Sachs, Rhonda Bellamy, Susan T. Block, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Emily Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bertha Boykin Todd, Philip Gerard, and more.
27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry, by Celia Rivenbark- Amazon Sales Rank: #1579695 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-10
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .80" w x 5.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
From the Inside Flap 27 Views of Wilmington: The Port 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 popular cities by featuring the works of more than two dozen hometown writers. The result is a mosaic of perspectives about life in the Port City in a variety of genres--journalism, history, fiction, poetry, and more. Contributors include Wiley Cash, Nan Graham, Jason Mott, Gwenyfar Rohror, Smith, Melodie Homer, Kevin Mauer, Virginia Holman, Dana Sachs, Rhonda Bellamy, Susan T. Block, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Emily Smith, Nikki Leone, Bertha Boykin Todd, Philip Gerard, and more.
About the Author Eastern North Carolina native Celia Rivenbark is an award-winning newspaper columnist and the author of the New York Times bestseller You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning, along with six other humor collections that blend her love of all things Southern with pop culture observations and general snarkiness. Her weekly humor column appears in newspapers across the country. Celia has appeared on Good Morning America and Inside Edition as a quasi-expert on how to avoid dressing your child like a skank. A four-time finalist for the James Thurber Award for Humorous Commentary, she lives in Wilmington.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Wilmington: Feels Like Home By Foster Corbin Perhaps it had something to do with fact that I had been listening to Judy Collins’ new CD of duets with male singers—particularly her singing with Jackson Browne the beautiful “Feels Like Home” that made me so receptive to Eno’s latest 27 VIEW OF WILMINGTON since the first section of essays is labeled “A Place Called Home.” It seems that practically every writer included is much taken with Wilmington. Even though Dana Sachs (“On Second Thought) threw up when she and her husband arrived at their rental house, having driven across the country from San Francisco to Wilmington, now twenty-three years, two sons and a house or two later, she has “allowed the city” to grow up around her. Melodie Homer (“Where You Find It”) has found a home in Wilmington for her and her two children after she lost her husband, a co-pilot on that ill-fated United Airlines plane that was hijacked and went down in a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11. The physical beauty of the city and the kindness of the people are what she says make Wilmington “feel like home.” (Maybe Judy Collins is on to something.) And I certainly envy Emily Louise Smith (“Winter Beach Run”) her proximity to the ocean. All is not completely perfect, however, in this paradise, as Robert Anthony Siegel, a recently transplanted New Yorker (“Ode to My Back Yard”) finds out. In addition to his daughter finding a snake in the yard, although he is delighted with having a big back yard, his next-door neighbor, “a kindly old gentleman” reminds him that if Mr. Siegel’s tree falls on the neighbor’s property, that he will have to sue him. (Perhaps Robert Frost was right about good fences making good neighbors.)Emily Colin’s “The Future Behind Me” from a work in progress and whose narrator is a former army chaplain in Iraq and now an ex-priest is so intriguing that I want to read the novel when she finishes it. In Nan Graham’s “Esther, Andy & Me (The Whole Bloomin’ Weekend) Azalea Festival 1958” we find out that Esther Williams may have swum like a mermaid but could curse like a sailor. (I guess some of us are telling our ages if we even remember the lady.) And Susan Taylor Block’s “Color Meets Light” is a beautiful tribute to the rector of the historic St. James Episcopal Church, Dr. Adam Empie, who spoke out against racism as early as 1811. My favorite essay in the entire collection, however, has to be Wendy Brenner’s “Love & Death in the Cape Fear Serpentarium.” It takes one heck of a writer to make someone who collects live snakes interesting in the person of one Dean Ripa; but she does and Mr. Ripa turns out to be one fascinating man. From being good friends with the writer William Burroughs (he was with Burroughs when he died) to saying that if he had a religion, it would be the snake-handling kind, Mr. Ripa is something else. (As an aside, I remember what one of my favorite writers Lee Smith, who is included in 27 VIEW OF HILLSBOROUGH, when asked by someone from some other part of the U. S. if she saw lots of snakes in the South, responded without missing a beat, only in church.Five of the authors write about the bloody infamous events of 1898 that left many black citizens dead in the section entitled “Views From 1898 and Beyond.” While what each writer says is good, a paragraph by Bertha Boykin Todd expressing the 1898 Foundation’s philosophy says it all:“No one living in Wilmington today was a participant in the events of 1898. Consequently, none among us bears any personal responsibility for what happened. But all among us—no matter our race or history, whether we have arrived here only recently or come from families that have called Wilmington home for generations—are responsible for 1998. On each of us falls the personal responsibility to make our community one where economic justice and racial harmony flourish.Surely this is a challenge we are willing to accept.”Elizabeth Woodman of Eno Publishers enclosed a note with the book she sent to me saying that 27 VIEWS OF WILMINGTON is the last in the 27 series that Eno has published in the past few years. It is indeed encouraging to see publishers who are interested in placing quality over quantity and in featuring serious writers in beautifully designed books that continue to win awards. When I finished this little review, I found myself a little sad for what will not come again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Now I'm captivated by the rich history of the city and the wonderful stories. Highly recommended By Amazon Customer Before reading this book, Wilmington was just a place I passed through on the way to the beach. Now I'm captivated by the rich history of the city and the wonderful stories. Highly recommended.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I like this way of describing a town to outsiders who ... By sharon burton I like this way of describing a town to outsiders who may visit. By using local authors to write short stories or poems about their hometown it ends up giving outsiders a view into the soul of the place.
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