Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan is the author of several books of poems, including Terroir (2011) and Dark Energy (2015). He has published ten books of fiction, including the New York Times bestseller Gap Creek, and, most recently, Chasing the North Star (2016) and As Rain Turns to Snow (2017). His works of nonfiction include Lions of the West (2011), 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.
ISBN: 978-1-950413-63-8
8.5 x 5.5 softcover, 188 pages
Robert Morgan has crafted opening lines that lure the reader into the immediacy of the experience … The experience that the most intellectually resilient readers are most likely to remember with admiration and delight is “Judaculla Rock,” an achievement that reminds me of Cormac McCarthy’s last and finest novel, Stella Maris … Morgan’s impressive intellect and artistic achievements may [also] be experienced in his 11 novels, including Gap Creek. — David Madden, The Phi Beta Kappa The Key Reporter, Fall, 2023
Carolina Classics Editions
ISBN: 978-1-941209-05-9
8.5 x 5.5 softcover, 74 pages
Originally published 1990 by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
Carolina Classics Editions
ISBN 978-1-941209-14-1
8.5 x 5.5 softcover, 76 pages
Originally published 1987 by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
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