{"product_id":"robert-morgan-9780786448630","title":"Robert Morgan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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 (\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrize Stories: The O. Henry Awards\u003c\/i\u003e). 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 An unpublished interview with him is included, along with an essay by him on the importance of sense of place, and a bibliography of publications by and about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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eRobert M. West\u003cbr\u003eI. On the Poetry\u003cbr\u003eA Prospect Newly Necessary\u003cbr\u003eFred Chappell\u003cbr\u003eRobert Morgan's Pelagian Georgics: Twelve Essays\t\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Harmon\u003cbr\u003eLooking for Native Ground: Robert Morgan\t\u003cbr\u003eRita Sims Quillen\u003cbr\u003e\"The Witness of Many Writings\": Robert Morgan's Poetic Career\u003cbr\u003eMichael McFee\u003cbr\u003eMusic's Mirror: Robert Morgan's Musica Speculativa\u003cbr\u003eJim Clark\u003cbr\u003eThe Elegiac Strain in Robert Morgan's Poetry\u003cbr\u003eBhisham Bherwani\u003cbr\u003eThe Missing as Muse: Treatments of Absence in the Poetry\u003cbr\u003eRobert M. West\u003cbr\u003eII. Robert Morgan's People and Places\u003cbr\u003eAn Essay and Photo Gallery\u003cbr\u003eJesse Graves\u003cbr\u003eIII. On the Prose\u003cbr\u003eMountain Time: History and Forgetting in The Mountains Won't Remember\u003cbr\u003ePaul Lincoln Sawyer\u003cbr\u003eBlood Soil Field: The Physicality of The Balm of Gilead Tree\u003cbr\u003eSuzanne Booker-Canfield\u003cbr\u003e\"The Little Clearing of Now\": Storytellers in The Hinterlands\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Godwin\u003cbr\u003eFaith, Sex, Talk, and Work: The Cornerstones of Community in The Truest Pleasure and This Rock\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Hovis\u003cbr\u003eThe Work of Love in Gap Creek\u003cbr\u003eMartha Greene Eads\u003cbr\u003eTunes from the \"Madrigal of Time\" in Brave Enemies\u003cbr\u003eHarriette C. Buchanan\u003cbr\u003eActing in Faith: Robert Morgan's The Road from Gap Creek\u003cbr\u003eThomas Alan Holmes\u003cbr\u003eRobert Morgan's Nonfiction Books: Crossing Over the Mountains\u003cbr\u003eTed Olson\u003cbr\u003eIV. In His Own Words\u003cbr\u003eA Sense of Place\u003cbr\u003eRobert Morgan\u003cbr\u003e\"No Writing in the Abstract\": An Interview\u003cbr\u003eRobert M. West\u003cbr\u003eA New Robert Morgan Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eRobert M. West and Jesse Graves\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038035050839,"sku":"9780786448630","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780786448630.jpg?v=1750938747","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/robert-morgan-9780786448630","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}