Glenn Ward Dresbach -1889-1968
From the advertising flyer to "The Wind in the Cedars":
Mr. Dresbach was born on a farm near Lanark, Illinois, in 1889. After being graduated from the University of Wisconsin where he was editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Magazine, he went to the Canal Zone where he remained for four years in the employ of the Panama Railroad. From Panama he went to New Mexico as metallurgical accountant for a large copper producer. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War Mr. Dresbach enlisted and rose to the ramk of captain before being demobilized. In 1919 he returned to New Mexico and in 1921 moved to Texas, where he married Mary Angela Boyle of Maryland. Later he returned to his old home at Lanark, Illinois, and devoted his entire time to poetry.
Some of his publications:
"In Colors of the West," 1922
"The Enchanted Mesa," 1924
"The Wind in the Cedars "
"Cliff Dwellings"
"This Side of Avalon"
WILD GEESE OVER THE DESERT
From sunset, slowly fading
To misted beryl and blue
Streaked with the melted topaz,
The goose-wedge comes in view.
The boughs of twisted cedars
On ledges darkly sway,
Making a futile gesture
To rise and fly away.
Nothing will have beginning
And nothing end in me,
For watching the geese fly over,
That any one may see.
Only my heart makes gesture
Of lifting wings to go,
Like boughs of the twisted cedars
Dark on a fading glow.
THE BOOKMAN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE [1922]
Edited by JOHN FARRAR
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1922,By George H. Doran Company.
Glenn Ward Dresbach
A native of Illinois, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, who lives now in El Paso, Texas, and has lived practically all of his life in the West, Glen Ward Dresbach is that rarest of persons, a businessman and poet. His present connection is with a packing company. He was at one time in governmental service in the Canal Zone. He has worked in mines. From this vigorous background we might expect the swinging rhythms of a Sandburg: but instead of that we find that Dresbach has a positive aversion to free verse, writes conventional lyrics with technical care, and long narrative and dramatic poems which have none of the vagaries in metre characteristic of much poetry which has come to us from the West.
Glenn Ward DRESBACH (<William Henry <Henry <Simon <Martin <Jacob <Martin)
b: Sep 09, 1889 Carroll Co, IL
Military service: WWI - Captain
d: Jun 27, 1968 in Eureka Springs, Carroll Co, AK
Burial: Jul 01, 1968 Fayetteville National Cemetery, Washington Co, AK
.. +Mary Angela BOYLE
b: of MD m: Abt. 1921 in TX
*2nd Wife of Glenn Ward DRESBACH:
.. +Beverley GITHENS
b: Jul 04, 1903
m: Aft. 1924 Military service: US Army, TEC5
d: Sep 25, 1971 in Eureka Springs, Carroll Co, AK
Burial: Sep 28, 1971 Fayetteville National Cemetery, Washington Co, AK
Some of Glenn and Beverley's correspondence is archived at the University of Arkansas.
Database: Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
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