To Honor the Imagined Whole

Published by: Louisiana State University Press (Paperback 2026)
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Published by: Louisiana State University Press (eBook 2026)
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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 lyric mountain language is equal to the epic sweep of history, to the grandeur of the land itself.

— Lee Smith

. . .

Gripping storytelling, indelible sense of time and place... Morgan turns the stories of prosaic lives into page-turners.

— The Raleigh News and Observer

. . .

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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Featured works:

To Honor the Imagined Whole

Published August 2026 by Louisiana State University Press

The Dead Alive and Busy: Selected Essays of Robert Morgan

Published March 2026 by University of Tennessee Press

Uplands: Selected Stories

Published October 2025 by Jesse Stuart Foundation

Collected Early Poems of Robert Morgan

Published December 2024 by Press 53

In the Snowbird Mountains and Other Stories

Published May 2023 by Press 53

Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Published November 2023 by Louisiana State University Press

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