George Bascom was a surgeon and a poet who practiced in Manhattan, Kansas. Some of us are lucky enough to have been exposed to his poetry and his short stories. I think many of you will appreciate his poems as well. The two best collections are "Medicine Circle" and "Faint Echoes." Both, published in 1993, are sadly out of print. A few of the best poems can be found in the PDF documents below.
Bascom Bio: Download Dr. Bascom Biography
Poems from Medicine Circle: Download Medicine Circle
Poems from Faint Echoes: Download Faint Echoes
This short verse, epitomizes for me the special genius of Geroge Bascom:
Seminar at Breckenridge
The peaks are frozen gold
above the gritty streets. Boots
grate briskly on the way
to lectures about lungs.
The holy heights
cry down to use, but inside under tinted glass
we file like mourners
to the conference room.
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