Wild Peavines: New Poems

Published by: Gnomon Press (Paperback 1996)

Included poems:

Attakullakulla Goes to London

Signal Fires

Fever Wit

Thrush Doctor

Outbuildings

Sanghoe

Wild Peavines

Honey

Family Letters

Madstone

Polishing the Silver

Mowing

Working in the Rain

Vapor Salve

Companions

Time's Music

Convection

Oxbow Lakes

Chicken Scratches

Related media:

Wild Peavines (poem)

Honey (poem)

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

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Morgan writes "with an authority usually associated with the great novelist of the last century."

— The Boston Book Review

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Robert Morgan's poems are always exciting for their precise knowledge of country things, and of how things go in the world of natural fact and process. This new collection gives us also some delightful lore from the Southern mountains: we learn of the horse fiddle, and holy cussing, and the intrepid pastor who held off bear or panther with his umbrella.

— Richard Wilbur, former U.S. Poet Laureate

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