Green River. New and Selected Poems

Published by: Wesleyan University Press (Paperback 1991)
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Published by: Wesleyan University Press (Hardcover 1991)
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Included poems:

Ghosts in the Carpet

We Are the Dream of Jefferson

Middle Sea

High Wallow

Appleglow

Earache

Subduction

High Country

From a Cliff

Driving

Water Tanks

Truck Driver

Beginning

Storm

Night Rain

Cellar

Resin

White Pines

Speaking

Hog-wire Fence

Whippoorwill

Exhaustion

Toolshed

Cedar

Great-grandmother

Finding an Old Newspaper in the Woods

Bees Awater

Double Springs

Roost Tree

Face

Pumpkin

Compass

Paradise's Fool

Mockingbird

Mountain Bride

Death Crown

Canning Time

Bean Money

Wallowing

Bricking the Church

Burning the Hornet's Nest

Zircon Pit

Secret Pleasures

Passenger Pigeons

White Autumn

Yellow

Manure Pile

Lightning Bug

Radio

The Gift of Tongues

Uncle Robert

Chant Royal

Field Theory

Sigodlin

Audubon's Flute

Inertia

Odometer

Rearview Mirror

Vietnam War Memorial

Heaven

Writing Spider

Related media:

Double Springs (poem)

Mountain Bride (poem)

Uncle Robert (poem)

Sigodlin (poem)

Audubon's Flute (poem)

Rearview Mirror (poem)

Praise for Green River. New and Selected Poems:

Robert Morgan is a poet whose meticulous details...

— Fred Chappell

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Anyone who reads Morgan's poems as paeans of the rural life is misreading his work as equally as those who once thought Frost a kindly, old New England Nature Poet. Much of his work lies in that strange territory we used to call the human heart: he never fails to confirm a common human frailty, a need for order in the chaos of memory.

— R. H. Liotta, Southern Literary Journal

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