Full name: The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems

Author: Robert Morgan Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books ISBNs: 9780807129524 0807129526

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. Similar books: The Odyssey by Homer The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur The Aeneid by Virgil Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke The Odyssey by Derek Walcott The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare Metamorphoses by Ovid Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost Ariel by Sylvia Plath