Books by Byron Herbert Reece

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.

This collection of selected poems by Byron Herbert Reece reflects the impact of his parent's death from tuberculosis, his own affliction with the disease, and with the distance he felt towards the family farm that he had inherited and assumed responsibility for.