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978-1-878086-67-9
1-878086-67-7
$13.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
142 pages
Down Home Press
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Michael Chitwood draws on
memories of growing up in the shadow of the Blue Ridge mountains with
anvil-tough women and fox-clever men as well as his encounters with the
computerized and rapidly changing New South in these pointed, and often
touching, essays.
Ranging over subjects as
diverse as the silliness of evangelical politicians, growing tobacco,
hunting deer with his brother, a hilarious outdoor wedding, and the
deeply moving loss of a beloved grandmother, Chitwood stands at the
intersection where the dirt road of the rural South crosses the
information superhighway, and, like any smart bluetick hound, he's
looking both ways.
about the author
A native of the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, near
Rocky Mount, Michael Chitwood is the author of three books of poetry, Salt
Works, Whet, and The Weave Room. His poetry and fiction have
appeared in Poetry, Ohio Review, The Southern Review, and Virginia
Quarterly Review, among other publications. He is a commentator for
WUNC public radio in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a teacher of writing,
and a columnist for The Independent, an alternative newspaper in
Durham, North Carolina. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and two
children.
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