{"product_id":"green-river-new-and-selected-poems-wesleyan-poetry-series-9780819511812","title":"Green River: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The solidity  range  intellectual vigor and beauty of Robert Morgans poems comprise  its now clear  the careful  painstaking signature of one of our best poets.\" WILLIAM MATTHEWS Grounded in the Blue Ridge Mountains of his native North Carolina  Robert Morgan writes about rural life  family history  folklore  fundamentalist religion  and the idea of kinship between people  land  and the natural world. For over twenty years he has striven for plainness  compactness  and simplicity in work that is nonetheless as metaphorically complex as Robert Frost and as lyrically rich as Gerard Manley Hopkins. Easily missed because of its soft-spoken yet sure tone  Morgans distinctly American voice in poetry comes through clearly in these selections from seven volumes  plus ten new pieces. Robert Morgan is a poet whose meticulous details open into vistas of unforeseen implication. Always engaging  always profound  his fine poems are rewarding in every aspect that we observe of them. Green River is a summing up of the mans enormous achievement. Fred Chappell \"Anyone who reads Morgans poems as paeans of the rural life is misreading his work as equally as those who once thought Frost a kindly  old New England Nature Poet. Much of his work lies in that strange territory we used to call the human heart: he never fails to confirm a common human frailty  a need for order in the chaos of memory.\" - P. H. Liotta  Southern Literary Journal ROBERT MORGAN grew up on a small farm near Zirconia  North Carolina  and is now Professor of English at Cornell University. His work has won numerous awards  including the Southern Poetry Review Prize in 1975  the Eunice Tietjens Prize in 1979  the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize in 1988  and the Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1991. He has published eight books of poetry and two books of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275558314037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0819511811","price":239.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780819511812.jpg?v=1780509566","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/green-river-new-and-selected-poems-wesleyan-poetry-series-9780819511812","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}