Praise for Robert Morgan

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 Joseph Campbell uses the word—‘numinous.’

—Gary Carden, The Smoky Mountain News

Robert Morgan's poems are always exciting for their precise knowledge of country things, and of how things go in the world of natural fact and process.

—Richard Wilbur, Former US Poet Laureate

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. 

—Oxford American

Any new collection of poems by Robert Morgan is a gift …. In the past thirty years I have learned a great deal from this man, who is exemplary as a poet, as a prose writer, and as a human being. 

—Ted Kooser, Former US Poet Laureate

About the Author

Robert Morgan is the author of several books of poems, including Terroir (2011) and Dark Energy (2015). He has published eleven books of fiction, including The New York Times bestseller Gap Creek, and, most recently, Chasing the North Star (2016), As Rain Turns to Snow (2017), and In the Snowbird Mountains and Other Stories (2023). His works of nonfiction include Lions of the West (2011), Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (2023), and the national bestseller Boone: A Biography (2007). Recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is currently Kappa Alpha Professor of English (Emeritus) at Cornell University.

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