A narrative poem.
BREWER, Leighton.
Riders of the Sky.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, small octavo, blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (viii), 163pp. First Edition. A combination of fact, fiction and legend in verse of American fighter pilots in France during World War I. The names mentioned in this poem are those the author knew at Tours. Brewer was a 1st Lt. in the 13th Aero Squadron who had 3 confirmed victories.

Long narative poem: “A story in verse of a young & senstive American boy & his experiences as an air fighter in France.
Among his comrades we find the well-known names of Eddie Rickenbacker, Hamilton Coolidge... [&c.] while across the pages
stalk the greater shadows of Ball & Bishop & Guynemer & the Baron Richthofen & his knights of the Flying Circus... ‘Riders of
the Sky’ is an Iliad of the air. Leighton Brewer, himself, was in the American Flying Service in France [13th Aero. Sqdrn., three
confirmed victories], & his poem is a superb illustration of the definition of poetry as emotion recollected in tranquility.”