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Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, a native of Atlanta, lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she teaches English and creative writing at St. Catherine's School. Her poems have been published in the Iowa Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and the Southern Review, and have been collected in a previous book, Parties.
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The finest poems in Morgan's ( Parties ) second collection are those about family life, particularly the relationship between mother and daughter. This is a mother who, being told by a fortune teller that she would "see the world," glued "maps of the world to the wall / of our dining room." Morgan describes everyday, run-of-the-mill experiences with such an eye for detail that most readers would recognize this particular mother if she walked into a room. We'd know the room, too: Morgan's voices explicitly evoke sound and smell. They delight in the Southern landscape, and explore the ways nature resembles humanity. One wonderfully sensual poem contrasts autumn's drought that places the forests in danger with the almost-50 female speaker's dryness and willingness to abandon herself to the body's fire. A few pieces hover at the borders of form--rhymed quatrains, a villanelle on anger. Given all Morgan's ability, it is distressing that the focal point of the collection is an extremely weak sequence about various governors, past and present, who lust after women like dirty old men. Despite implications in the final poem about people who "crave disaster" and will always need governors, the metaphor here is too simple to be meaningful.
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- PublisherLouisiana State Univ Pr
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0807118117
- ISBN 13 9780807118115
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages60
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