Robert Morgan has long been one of this country's finest poets. Now he shows that his hand is just as steady in fiction.

There is comfort and humor in Morgan's evocation of country people trying to survive.

Robert Morgan should be declared a national treasure.

Morgan writes with an enviable clarity that makes personalities, issues and event come alive on the page.

It is such a pleasure to rest on the fertile banks of [Morgan's] imagination, engaged by a steady current of haunting images and carefully chiseled phrases, that when the final poems comes, the reader feels as if the power company dammed the Green River without putting it to a vote.