Land Diving

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Published by: Louisiana State University Press (Paperback 1976)

Published by: Louisiana State University Press (Hardcover 1976)

 

Included poems:

Steep
Affliction
Double Springs
Signs
Going Barefoot
Easter Algae
Concert
Roost Tree
Cold Friday
Sproutlands
Getting Out Rock
Surveying
After Church
Face
Dark Corner
Turpentine the Dog
Flood
Horseshoe, NC
Voice
Land Diving
Plowing Snow Under
Feed Room
Hogpen
Headlights
Pumpkin
Pioneer
Horace Pace
Killing the Dog
Squirrel. Shadow
Clearing Newground
Frozen Lake
Progeny
Polemic
Flight of Mountains
Climbing
Rice
Compass
Volunteer
Witch Hazel
Fall
Tell
Copse
Oblique
Flatboat
Privilege
Beached
Buffalos in Blizzard
Ice Worm
Midnight Sun
Paradise's Fool

 

Related media:

Double Springs (poem)

 

Praise for Robert Morgan:

"Reads like a fireside chat, a storyteller's story, frozen in time on the printed page."

— Southern Living
. . .

Robert Morgan's writing is... clear and simple, yet it possesses a luminous poetic quality, a rough beauty hewn from the countyside and from old, forgotten ways.

— The Philadelphia Inquirer
. . .

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
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