At the Edge of the Orchard Country

Published by: Wesleyan University Press (Paperback 1987)
At the Edge of the Orchard Country at Amazon

Published by: Wesleyan University Press (Hardcover 1987)
At the Edge of the Orchard Country at Amazon

Included poems:

Horace Kephart

Passenger Pigeons

Buffalo Trace

Feather Bed

Looking Homeward

Halley's Comet

White Autumn

Books in the Attic

Ancient

Yellow

Manure Pile

Bonus

Brownian Motion

Lightning Bug

Dead Dog on the Highway

Bare Yard

Radio

The Gift of Tongues

Bellrope

Parlor

Potato Hole

Sunday Toilet

Cowbedding

Hay Scuttle

Earth Closet

Harrow

Coccidiosis

Throwing Rocks

Elmer's Seat

Uncle Robert

Firecrackers at Christmas

Man and Machine

Cleaning Off the Cemetary

Lost Colony

School Ground

Nail Bag

Visitors

Jutaculla Rock

The Charge

Chant Royal

Field Theory

Related media:

Uncle Robert (poem)

Man and Machine (poem)

Praise for At the Edge of the Orchard Country:

One of the most original poets of his generation.

— John Frederick Nims

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RM has captured, through intensely-felt particulars, the farm and natural worlds of his native Carolina mountains... urgent realizations of the hay scuttle, the potato hole, the manure pile, and... the charged atmosphere of a certain kind of day. In this collection Morgan broadens his scope as never before...

— Richard Wilbur

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Readers who know Robert Morgan's previous six collections of poetry will be delighted by this most elegiac, most celebratory new book. They will find deft and mysterious tales of country life, hymns to all matter and every manner of spirit... Robert Morgan... will win many readers with his new work.

— Dave Smith

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