October Crossing

Published by: Broadstone Books (Paperback 2009)
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Included poems:

Clogging

Brownfield

Immune

Bond

Concert

Monuments

Squirt Gun

Holy Cussing

Burning Spring

Snakes in the Attic

October Crossing

Land Stealer

Nurse Log

Link

Kudzu Cousins

Wet-Weather Spring

Brink

Inspired

Medicine Circles

Water of Death

Singing to the Corn

Horse Fiddle

The Holy Laugh

Convocation

Lone Eagle

Singing to Make Butter Come

Poison Oak

Hillside Plow

Descent

Apple Howling

Craft

Shield

Listening to the Clock

The Years Ahead

Praise for October Crossing:

Any new collection of poems by Robert Morgan is a gift, and October Crossing is wonderful through and through. In the past thirty years I have learned a great deal from this man, who is exemplary as a poet, as a prose writer, and as a human being.

— Ted Kooser

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Robert Morgan's poems are always exciting for their precise knowledge of country things, and of how things go in the world of natural fact and process. This new collection gives us also some delightful lore from the Southern mountains: we learn of the horse fiddle, and holy cussing, and the intrepid pastor who held off bear or panther with his umbrella.

— Richard Wilbur, former U.S. Poet Laureate

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Forty years after the publication of his first book, Robert Morgan makes this remarkable October Crossing. "Beating back the blackest shadows... to the pulse of clap and laughter," he surely earns the collection's final prospect: "years ahead / as golden as the leaves on hickories."

— Robert West

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