Land Diving

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

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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

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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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