The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems

The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems
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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 word-smith 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.
Country USA
Brand Louisiana State University Press
Manufacturer LSU Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2004-04-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780807129524

Country	USA
Brand	Louisiana State University Press
Manufacturer	LSU Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2004-04-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780807129524

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