Poet, musician, and professor Jim Clark has just released The Service of Song: Words by Byron Herbert Reece/Music by Jim Clark.
The cd includes the text of the poems set to music by Clark, including I Go by Ways of Rust and Flame, The Elm and the Moon, and The Altitudes of Love.
I Go By Ways of Rust and Flame
I go by ways of rust and flame
Beneath the bent and lonely sky;
Behind me on the ways I came
I see the hedges lying bare,
But neither question nor reply.
A solitary thing am I
Upon the roads of rust and flame
That thin at sunset to the air.
I call upon no word nor name,
And neither question nor reply
But walk alone as all men must
Upon the roads of flame and rust.
The cd is $10.00 (plus $2.00 for shipping) and may be ordered from Eternal Delight Productions, P.O. Box 7861, Wilson, NC 27895.
Kay, thanks for this post. I'd like to have that cd by Jim Clark. Steve Harvey set one of Reese's poems to music and he and his group, Butternut Creek, sing it. It is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a terrific CD. I would like to get a copy. I enjoy Byron Herbert Reece's poetry, and know they would really be great set to music.
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