Tony Reevy Livres

Passage is a book of poetry. Passage tells the story of a Central European family who immigrated to the United States-what they found, what they gained, and what they lost. The poems in the book show the fragmented history conveyed by family tales, when those are all that remain of the past. The poems also celebrate the richness of Hungarian and Slovak culture, and how those cultures contributed to, and were diminished by, American culture. Finally, Passage's historic view of immigration casts a clear, questioning light on how America treats its newcomers today.

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

In Socorro, poet and non-fiction author Tony Reevy (Old North, Passage) revisits his childhood hometown, Socorro, New Mexico. Although the largest community for miles in any direction, Socorro is haunted by its past, and by legends stemming from its combined Native American-Hispanic-Anglo heritage. Reevy's poems explore a childhood on the edge of the desert, view legends and legendary figures such as La Llorona and Elfego Baca, and then look back at these experiences from an adult point-of-view. In Southwestern towns like Socorro, where the sidewalks are still marked "WPA 1935," the past, and even the supernatural, never seem far away.

In Turbulence , poet and non-fiction author Tony Reevy looks at "family" in the United States through the lens of one family and its members' collective experiences over the last fifty years. The poems in the book explore major paradoxes about the U.S.-a love of nature combined with environmental destruction; a democracy that for years denied the rights of millions; a wealthy country that offers little or no assistance for many of its people-and how they affect one extended family. Most importantly, Turbulence asks how families cope with such unexpected events as the death of a child, or a young mother or father-tragedies that our society largely chooses to ignore.