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One of Robert Morgan's chief claims on our attention is the backbone he puts into the backcountry lore that grounds his work, the stately proprieties and meditative gravity he hews out of the hardscrabble folkways of his native Blue Ridge Mountains...
In examining the hard, honest lives of his people, Robert Morgan gives voice to a time and place rarely imagined. Gap Creek speaks of things both intimate and eternal. — Stewart O'Nan
View Morgan's Curriculum Vitae. About Robert Morgan. I was born October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina and grew up on the family farm in the Green River valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a teenager I was interested in composing music as well as in writing poetry and fiction.
Robert Morgan has a rare and cunning gift: he can sift through the detritus of the past, pluck objects and images from his memory (especially his childhood) and elevate them to the point where they become -- in the sense that Campbell used the word -- 'numinous.'
Robert Morgan has a rare and cunning gift: he can sift through the detritus of the past, pluck objects and images from his memory (especially his childhood) and elevate them to the point where they become -- in the sense that Campbell used the word -- 'numinous.'
His version of the Battle of Cowpens is a tour do force. . . . One of the rarest of Robert Morgan's gifts is his ability to embody the minds and voices of strong women. In <em>Brave Enemies</em>, he brings us Josie Summers, a young woman of rich feeling who is forced to assume male identity.
Morgan remains one of our keenest poets of lucidity and attention and makes sacred the peripheral, the often unsung. He stares deeply into that which we rarely consider, as all good poets do. — William Wright, Oxford American
Praise for Robert Morgan: Robert Morgan's lyric mountain language is equal to the epic sweep of history, to the grandeur of the land itself. — Lee Smith
All works by Robert Morgan: Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (2023) In the Snowbird Mountains and Other Stories (2023) The Oratorio That Was Time (2022) As Rain Turns to Snow and Other Stories (2017) Chasing the North Star (2016) Dark Energy (2015) The Road from Gap Creek (2013) Lions of the West (2011) Terroir: Poems (2011) October ...
Robert Morgan. Works. Works. Non-fiction Fiction Essays Poetry. About; Contact; Search. Home; Works; Poetry; Poetry . Works in this category: The Oratorio That Was Time (2022) Dark Energy (2015) Terroir: Poems (2011) October Crossing (2009) The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems (2004) Topsoil Road: Poems (2000)
