At the Edge of the Orchard Country (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Morgan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819561649 ISBN 13: 9780819561640

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Morgan, Robert

About this title

From Library Journal

Since his first major book, Red Owl ( 1972), Morgan has enriched his sparse style; but his sober tone remains, as do his subjects: nature and rural life. Included in this volume are many of the poems in his preceding book, Bronze Age (Iron Mountain Pr., 1981). At his best, he is wise and subtly suggestivethe gentle voice of reason, wonder, and civility. But often the understatement turns flat, literal, chatty but humorless. One imagines the poet, note pad in hand, staring gravely at a privy, manure pile, or dead dog (the "exquisite filth" about which he writes), and it becomes difficult to share in the solemnity. This characteristic seriousness is more effective in descriptions of a revival meeting and a cemetery clean-up. A quietly competent book, for larger collections. Leonard Kniffel, Detroit P.L.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Ancient
Bare Yard
Bellrope
Bonus
Books In The Attic
Brownian Motion
Buffalo Trace
Chant Royal
The Charge
Cleaning Off The Cemetery
Coccidiosis
Cowbedding
Dead Dog On The Highway
Earth Closet
Elmer's Seat
Feather Bed
Field Theory
Firecrackers At Christmas
The Gift Of Tongues
Halley's Comet
Harrow
Hay Scuttle
Horace Kephart
Jutacula Rock
Lightning Bug
Looking Homeward
Lost Colony
Man And Machine
Manure Pile
Nail Bag
Parlor
Passenger Pigeons
Potato Hole
Radio
School Ground
Sunday Toilet
Throwing Rocks
Uncle Robert
Visitors
White Autumn
Yellow
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0819561649
• ISBN 13: 9780819561640
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 75