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A Song of Joy And Other Poems (inscribed)
Author: Reece, Byron Herbert Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952 1st ed. INSCRIBED ffep by author: “For E.V. with the appropriate sentiments, Byron” and dated “Choestoe, Ga. July 21, 1952.” 125pp. red cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good+ dj [touch of age browning of endpp; hint of a corner bump; else VG; dj = slightly age darkened w/a few small tears @ extremities but now protected in a poly cover; else G+] Bryon Herbert Reece (1917-58) was a young, critically acclaimed North Georgia working farmer/poet of the 1940s and fifties who was beginning to gain a national reputation, but he was emotionally tortured and committed suicide just before his 41st birthday. This is a presentation copy inscribed to E. V. Griffith, a younger poet and writer who was a friend and confidant of Reece’s and corresponded with him regularly. Dutton published “A Song of Joy” on July 4, 1952. Reece had written Griffith in March of that year: “I’ll send your copy as soon as it appears.” This was it, dated only 17 days after publication and probably one of the first copies Reece signed (if not the very first). This third book of Reece’s poems (following “The Ballad of the Bones” and “Bow Down in Jericho”) was widely reviewed with general favor across the country, but a less than enthusiastic notice in “The Saturday Review of Literature” implying that Reece’s poetry in this particular volume was derivative (particularly of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Moriturus”) caused the usually reserved poet to fire off angry letters to the magazine and to his Dutton editor. Reece’s Celtic amour-propre had been damaged by what he imagined to be an accusation of plagarism. Reece’s ballads, lyrics and sonnets reflect religion, mysticism and nature and welled up from a deep rootedness in his native mountains. His home area Choestoe, the dateline of this book’s inscription, is a Cherokee word (pronounced “cho-wy sto-wy”) that is poetry itself in two languages: “The Place of the Dancing Rabbits.” The rural, isolated mountain way of life and its natural beauty from which Reece developed his poetic vision are now seemingly doomed by modern sprawl from Atlanta to the south, but something of the mountain spirit lives on in Reece’s poetry. A scarce volume and a great piece of Reeceana. Quantity available: 1. Price: US$595.00 |
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