Description
This book contains poetry of Colorado’s first poet laureate, Thomas Hornsby Ferril. The book is 105 pages and includes a foreword by the author and 52 poems. Born in 1896, Ferril was educated at Colorado College, married journalist Helen Ferril, and made his life in Denver, Colorado. Supporting his household as the director of public relations at the Great Western Sugar Company, he also wrote poetry and essays. His first collection of verse, High Passage (1926), was honored by the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. It was followed by Westering (1934), Trial by Time (1944), New and Selected Poems (1952), Words for and Other Poems (1966), and Anvil of Roses (1983). Ferril was awarded the Oscar Blumenthal Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Frost Poetry Award, and the Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award. A selection of his works was republished as Thomas Hornsby Ferril and the American West (1996). Carl Sandburg is quoted as saying about “an authentic American literary artist, an indubitable poet of atmosphere, soil, and traditions peculiarly American … Every page from him has importance for America.”
