Trunk & Thicket
Published by:
L'Epervier Press (Paperback 1978)
Included poems:
Trunk & Thicket
Homecoming
Mockingbird
Praise for Robert Morgan:
Words plain and deep as the hills...
— Booklist. . .
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. . .
[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. . .
Featured works:
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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