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Klappentext 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.
