In the Snowbird Mountains and Other Stories

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

Morgan writes "with an authority usually associated with the great novelist of the last century."

Robert Morgan has a rare and cunning gift: he can sift through the detritus of the past, pluck objects and images from his memory (especially his childhood) and elevate them to the point where they become -- in the sense that Campbell used the word -- 'numinous.'