Zirconia Poems

Published by:
Lillabulero Press (Paperback 1969)
Included poems:
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 ReviewRobert Morgan has long been one of this country's finest poets. Now he shows that his hand is just as steady in fiction.
— James WelshOne of Robert Morgan's chief claims on our attention is the backbone he puts into the backcountry lore that grounds his work, the stately proprieties and meditative gravity he hews out of the hardscrabble folkways of his native Blue Ridge Mountains... His is a fine-grained, self-implicating intelligence that can span the intricacies of both pine resin and pantoums.
— Poetry