The Balm of Gilead Tree and Other Stories

Published by:
Gnomon Press (Paperback 1999)
The Balm of Gilead Tree at Amazon
Published by:
Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1999)
Included stories:
The Tracks of Chief de Soto
Poinsett's Bridge
Kuykendall's Gold
Little Willie
A Brightness New & Welcoming
Pisgah
Dark Corner
1916 Flood
Murals
The Welcome
Tailgunner
Death Crown
The Ratchet
Sleepy Gap
The Bullnoser
A Taxpayer & A Citizen
The Balm of Gilead Tree
Praise for Robert Morgan:
Words plain and deep as the hills...
— BooklistAny new collection of poems by Robert Morgan is a gift... In the past thirty years I have learned a great deal from this man, who is exemplary as a poet, as a prose writer, and as a human being.
— Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet LaureateRobert 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.'
— Gary Carden, The Smoky Mountain News