The Oratorio That Was Time

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

Gripping storytelling, indelible sense of time and place... Morgan turns the stories of prosaic lives into page-turners.

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.