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George Scarbrough was born in a clapboard cabin in Patty, Polk County, Tennessee in 1915. He was the third of seven children in a family of sharecroppers which moved frequently around the County during his early years. Strongly influenced by his literate mother, he was an avid reader from his earliest years, and showed literary inclinations which seemed very strange in the County at the time. He attended the University of Tennessee in 1935-36, The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee for two years on scholarship during the war in 1941-43, and then taught is several Tennessee schools. He entered Lincoln Memorial University and graduated with a B.A. degree cum laude in 1947. He received a masters degree from the University of Tennessee in 1954, and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1968 to be with his ailing mother and lived with her until her death in 1983. He still lives and writes in Oak Ridge.

He has published poetry in more than 65 magazines and journals over many years continuing into the present. He has also published five major books of poetry and one novel. In 1997 a tape was published of George reading and commenting on a selection of his poetry. He is very prolific, writing every day, and continues to be published regularly in prestigious literary magazines.

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It is important to have these strong, adze-crafted poems again. George Scarbrough is a necessary poet who has been all too infrequently heard of late. His Eastanalle is as firmly sited as E.A. Robinson's Tilbury Town and as quirkily populated as Jesse Stuart's W-Hollow. Welcome back, Tellico Blue. --Fred Chappell

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Triolet for My Father

He told time by Belle's beautiful face: A cheek or an eye Were the numerals by Which he could tie The hours in place. Now let him lie, Let the hours race.