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The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems

The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems

Morgan, Robert

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 0807129526
ISBN13: 9780807129524
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Apr 1 2004
Pages: 137
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.16 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

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--to be rocked to sleep by mountains / equals the rest of heroes.

Fourteen new poems open the volume, and selections from nine previous collections follow. Robert Morgan's The Strange Attractor grants readers a generous overview of an important American poet's work.

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