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:

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.'

— Gary Carden, The Smoky Mountain News
. . .

Morgan has contributed so much to the health of southern poetry over the last thirty-five years that the southerness of his work is axiomatic... [His] reputation is made, in no small part, on the strength of his ear, with which he has produced some of the most sonorous poems in the language.

— North Carolina Literary Review
. . .

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
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