Gaspar Still in His Cage Author:Reed Bye Poetry. "In a period where neo-formalists and the avant-garde are often sharply polarized, Reed Bye's poems offer both a savory wildness and the more traditional poetic pleasures of elegance and lightness. Both these approaches are marked in his work by a sly sense of wit and irony-and a refreshingly direct and deeply felt humanness-as he examin... more »es the he scale of the human world and the natural, whether in gravely formal lyrics, saturnine Gothic satire, or careening country ballads"-Patrick Pritchett. Saddle Stapled.« less