To Honor the Imagined Whole

Published by: Louisiana State University Press (Paperback 2026)
To Honor the Imagined Whole (2026) at LSU Press
To Honor the Imagined Whole (2026) at Amazon

Published by: Louisiana State University Press (eBook 2026)
To Honor the Imagined Whole (2026) at LSU Press
To Honor the Imagined Whole (2026) at Amazon

Included poems:

Lockdown

Cowbell

Wind Chime

The Service of Forever

The Music of the Spheres is Silent

Carillonneur

Crow Funeral

Mandolin

The Death of Time

Echo

Slow Tango

Calling

Rowen

Candle Trees

The Bribe

Mirror Garden

Origins of Chivalry

Cairn

Retreat

Fraidy Hole

The God of Ruin

Squirrel Hill

Hog Wallow

Window

Thumbprint

Silt

Niagaras Every Foot

Watching Clouds

The Sadness of a Winter Field

Higher Source

Krummholz

Pangaea

Syphon Fountain

Covert

The Clouds Today

The Mower — 1933

Rewilding

New Dust

Urnfield

Sleeping in My Chair

Legacy

Cobalt

The Seizure

Longevity

Baptism

The Long Home

Hog Rock

Super Vision

Sleep

Tumbleweed

1948

Because He'd Lived So Long A Bachelor

Wise Virgin

Adoration

Rolling Rocks

Marbles

Harmonica

Red Letters

Mural

The Oratorio That Was Time

Late

Praise for Robert Morgan:

Robert Morgan's fiction is "about people who have a deep sense of themselves, who were not created by a huge and complicated society but by a small, simple one in which individual character sprouted slowly and in trial bloomed... wise, eloquent."

— New York Times Book Review

. . .

Morgan has contributed so much to the health of southern poetry over the last thirty-five years that the southerness of his work is axiomatic... [His] reputation is made, in no small part, on the strength of his ear, with which he has produced some of the most sonorous poems in the language.

— North Carolina Literary Review

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The poet laureate of Appalachia.

— Kirkus Review

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