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:

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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[Robert Morgan] is a seasoned author whose prose reads like poetry and whose nonfiction reads like novels... His books teach and inspire. He gives the past, with all its heroes and villains, a new life, if not a new purpose.

— Southern Literary Review

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Robert Morgan has a rare and cunning gift: he can sift through the detritus of the past, pluck objects and images from his memory (especially his childhood) and elevate them to the point where they become -- in the sense that Campbell used the word -- 'numinous.'

— Gary Carden, The Smoky Mountain News

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