For more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His many honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as television appearances (The Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards). This first book on Morgan collects appreciations and analyses…mehr
For more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His many honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as television appearances (The Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards). This first book on Morgan collects appreciations and analyses by some of his most dedicated readers, including fellow poets, authors, critics and scholars. An unpublished interview with him is included, along with an essay by him on the importance of sense of place, and a bibliography of publications by and about him.
Robert M. West is a professor of English at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. He is the author of three chapbooks of poems, essays, reviews, and interviews related to Robert Morgan. Jesse Graves is poet in residence and professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. The author of four books of poems, and guest editor of a special issue of Southern Quarterly dedicated to Morgan's work.
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Table of Contents Preface Robert M. West I. On the Poetry A Prospect Newly Necessary Fred Chappell Robert Morgan's Pelagian Georgics: Twelve Essays William Harmon Looking for Native Ground: Robert Morgan Rita Sims Quillen "The Witness of Many Writings": Robert Morgan's Poetic Career Michael McFee Music's Mirror: Robert Morgan's Musica Speculativa Jim Clark The Elegiac Strain in Robert Morgan's Poetry Bhisham Bherwani The Missing as Muse: Treatments of Absence in the Poetry Robert M. West II. Robert Morgan's People and Places An Essay and Photo Gallery Jesse Graves III. On the Prose Mountain Time: History and Forgetting in The Mountains Won't Remember Paul Lincoln Sawyer Blood Soil Field: The Physicality of The Balm of Gilead Tree Suzanne Booker-Canfield "The Little Clearing of Now": Storytellers in The Hinterlands Rebecca Godwin Faith, Sex, Talk, and Work: The Cornerstones of Community in The Truest Pleasure and This Rock George Hovis The Work of Love in Gap Creek Martha Greene Eads Tunes from the "Madrigal of Time" in Brave Enemies Harriette C. Buchanan Acting in Faith: Robert Morgan's The Road from Gap Creek Thomas Alan Holmes Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books: Crossing Over the Mountains Ted Olson IV. In His Own Words A Sense of Place Robert Morgan "No Writing in the Abstract": An Interview Robert M. West A New Robert Morgan Bibliography Robert M. West and Jesse Graves About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface Robert M. West I. On the Poetry A Prospect Newly Necessary Fred Chappell Robert Morgan's Pelagian Georgics: Twelve Essays William Harmon Looking for Native Ground: Robert Morgan Rita Sims Quillen "The Witness of Many Writings": Robert Morgan's Poetic Career Michael McFee Music's Mirror: Robert Morgan's Musica Speculativa Jim Clark The Elegiac Strain in Robert Morgan's Poetry Bhisham Bherwani The Missing as Muse: Treatments of Absence in the Poetry Robert M. West II. Robert Morgan's People and Places An Essay and Photo Gallery Jesse Graves III. On the Prose Mountain Time: History and Forgetting in The Mountains Won't Remember Paul Lincoln Sawyer Blood Soil Field: The Physicality of The Balm of Gilead Tree Suzanne Booker-Canfield "The Little Clearing of Now": Storytellers in The Hinterlands Rebecca Godwin Faith, Sex, Talk, and Work: The Cornerstones of Community in The Truest Pleasure and This Rock George Hovis The Work of Love in Gap Creek Martha Greene Eads Tunes from the "Madrigal of Time" in Brave Enemies Harriette C. Buchanan Acting in Faith: Robert Morgan's The Road from Gap Creek Thomas Alan Holmes Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books: Crossing Over the Mountains Ted Olson IV. In His Own Words A Sense of Place Robert Morgan "No Writing in the Abstract": An Interview Robert M. West A New Robert Morgan Bibliography Robert M. West and Jesse Graves About the Contributors Index
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