Land Diving

Published by:
Louisiana State University Press (Paperback 1976)
Published by:
Louisiana State University Press (Hardcover 1976)
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Praise for Robert Morgan:
"Reads like a fireside chat, a storyteller's story, frozen in time on the printed page."
— Southern LivingRobert 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 InquirerOne 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