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George Addison Scarbrough (1915-2008) was an Appalachian poet from Polk County, Tennessee. Scarbrough published six volumes of poetry: Tellico Blue (E.P. Dutton, 1949); The Course Is Upward (E.P. Dutton, 1951); Summer So-Called (E.P. Dutton, 1956); New and Selected Poems (Iris Press, 1977); Invitation to Kim (Iris Press, 1989); and Under the Lemon Tree (Iris Press, 2011, posthumous). Scarbrough also published a novel, A Summer Ago (St. Luke’s Press, 1986, reprinted by Iris Press 2011). Scarbrough’s poems appeared in over 65 journals, including The Sewanee Review, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly, and The New Republic. In the 1990s, Poetry published over twenty of his Han Shan poems, written from the persona of the Chinese poet. Many of these poems were collected posthumously in Under the Lemon Tree.
