Wildwood Flower Poems Author:Kathryn, Stripling Byer In Wildwood Flower, Kathryn Stripling Byer speaks through the fictional voice of a mountain woman named Alma, who lived in the Blue Ridge wilderness around the turn of the century. In narrative and lyric, Byer's poems sing a journey through solitude, capturing the spirit and the sound of mountain ballads and of the women who sang them, stitchin... more »g bits and pieces of their hardscrabble lives into lasting patterns.« less