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Fable in the Blood - The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece (Paperback)
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Fable in the Blood - The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece (Paperback)
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Collected here are poems by one of Georgia's most intriguing and
talented poets of the twentieth century. Byron Herbert Reece was
born in Union County, Georgia, in 1917 and authored four volumes of
poems and two novels during his short lifetime. Until now, many of
his poems, originally published in the 1940s and 1950s, have been
out of print. Reece, who faithfully assumed responsibility for his
family's farm when his parents became ill, was never a poet of the
academic ivory tower. Indeed, he rebelled against the rising New
Criticism associated with the Vanderbilt Fugitives, the elite of
southern poetry at that time. Reece's work reflects both the
devastating impact of his parents' death from tuberculosis and his
own affliction with the disease, which caused him to distance
himself from others: ""A solitary thing am I / Upon the roads of
rust and flame / That thin at sunset to the air."" Reece was also
preoccupied with his ambivalence toward the farm, which sustained
his solitude yet took time away from his writing: ""In the far,
dark woods go roving / And find there to match your mood / A
kindred spirit moving / Where the wild winds blow in the wood.""
Reece's poetry is resonant and contemplative, and Jim Clark has
included here works that speak for the true grace of Reece's
talent. In addition, Clark's attentive introduction should bring
increased interest to this notable southern poet.
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