Red Owl: Poems

By Robert Morgan

Book Overview

This book introduces to the Norton imprint a new poet with a strong original voice. Robert Morgan writes out of the central tradition of American poetry. His lyrics, rooted though they are in the specifics of the everyday--in earth and leaves, lakes and stones--reach through and beyond these to transcendence, to mystery; they intertwine animate and inanimate, inner and outer, idea and object. As David Kalstone puts it, Morgan is "faithful to the natural facts and yet so aware of the mysterious instincts which allow us in the first place to see, hear, observe such facts."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393041360
• ISBN13: 9780393041361
• Release Date: December 1972
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Like looking through an old woodpile

These poems by Robert Morgan, North Carolina's poet laureate and author of several novels, including the bestseller "Gap Creek," and numerous volumes of poetry, are like picking through a woodpile, looking for dry kindling. Most burn brilliantly with the earthy essence of the Southern Appalachians, and most are like kindling: they burn quickly. His poems are conversational and simple, and they deal with such subjects as farming, lumbering, and ramblings through the forest. They have intellectual weight but are not self-referential, since Morgan writes about real life in the mountains. A lovely book, and an absolute bargain for only two bucks--while other poets are asking fifteen dollars for volumes of poetry of a similar length. I woulnd't normally describe a book in monetary terms, but this one is a great value.