The Oratorio That Was Time

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Published by: Audubon Terrace Press (Paperback 2022)
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Included poems:

1948
Because He'd Lived So Long A Bachelor
Wise Virgin
My Father's Bible
Words Are Threats
Adoration
Rolling Rocks
Marbles
Harmonica
Purple Rags
Closure
Red Letters
Acrid
The Oratorio That Was Time

 

Included stories:

Survey

War No More

Jack

 

Related media:

Harmonica (poem)

The Oratorio That Was Time (poem)

 

Praise for Robert Morgan:

One of Robert Morgan's chief claims on our attention is the backbone he puts into the backcountry lore that grounds his work, the stately proprieties and meditative gravity he hews out of the hardscrabble folkways of his native Blue Ridge Mountains... His is a fine-grained, self-implicating intelligence that can span the intricacies of both pine resin and pantoums.

— Poetry
. . .

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.

— Southern Humanities Review
. . .

If you grew up in the country or feel an affinity for the mountains, Morgan's [work] will bring you home again; if not, here is an authentic tour of the region.

— Sandlapper
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