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The unfading poetic brilliance of Robert Morgan shines through these ninety-three pieces spanning thirty-five years. Celebrated for his recent fiction, Morgan makes obvious in this volume he was first, and remains foremost, a wordsmith of poetic sensibilities--a craftsman of taut, forceful imagery, alert with wonder to the mystery of what lies in plain sight. Like Robert Frost, Morgan takes the natural world as a metaphorical base for human projection. Much of his work is a love song to the Appalachian Mountain terrain and a way of life all but gone: his father speaking in tongues; his mother canning peaches; carpentry, farming, the seasons in slow motion, family history, and wind-borne strains of music. He captures the aura around such common objects as resin, cellars, hog-wire fence, the whippoorwill, and crickets. Infusing his poetry with mountain idiom, even when pondering the cosmos beyond, Morgan creates lyrics with a rhythm like rain.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Strange Attractor
• Subtitle: New and Selected Poems
• Author: Robert Morgan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780807129524
• ISBN: 0807129526
• ID: 11527731
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2004

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