Red Owl

Published by: W.W. Norton (Paperback 1972)
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Published by: W.W. Norton (Hardcover 1972)
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Included poems:

Topsoil

Cellar

Woodpile

Well

Building a Dam

Windfall

Bass

Rubies

Reach

Resin

White Pines

Wagon Roads

Muddy Road

Wire Grass

Mound Builders

Speaking

Thaw

Slide

The Drained Lake

New-plowed Ground

Planting

He Hoes Forever

Hog-wire Fence

Boredom

Birling

Ghost Tracks

Earthquake

Whippoorwill

Exhaustion

Present

Toolshed

House Burning

Cedar

Great-grandmother

Chestnut

Finding an Old Newspaper in the Woods

Mendicant Rose

Old Photograph

Copper

Stove

Faucet

Bubble

Church Pews

Time

Seismograph

Weed Above Snow

Stump

Red Owl

April 1970

Bees Awater

2 A.M.

Meteor

Aspire

Power

Wind

Warm Winter Day

Day Lillies

The Spring

Light Is Bleached

Rabbit Tobacco

Bonfire

Milk Gap

Cold

Hubcaps

Praise for Robert Morgan:

Reminiscent of James Dickey- bearing the same naturalistic marks of clear, clean prose and often disturbing imagery... Morgan casts a stark story peopled with real, believable, and honest characters.

— The Baltimore Sun

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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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If you grew up in the country or feel an affinity for the mountains, Morgan's [work] will bring you home again; if not, here is an authentic tour of the region.

— Sandlapper

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