The Strange Attractor

<p>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.</p>