Zirconia Poems

Published by: Lillabulero Press (Paperback 1969)

Included poems:

High Country

Waking from a Dream I Think of Jesse Rehder

Waking Late in the Afternoon

Rain, Drunk

Foxfire

Night Puddle

From a Cliff

Very Old Man

Elegy

Cornstalks, Raint Christmas

Passing Through

Driving

Water Tanks

Swamp

Lake Adrift In Mountains

Hunting

7:30 A.M.

In April the Air is a Coral Sea

Creek

Dream

Zirconia

Visit to Several Towns

Esprit Lucid

Praise for Robert Morgan:

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

— The Raleigh News and Observer

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One 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

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If you grew up in the country or feel an affinity for the mountains, Morgan's [work] will bring you home again; if not, here is an authentic tour of the region.

— Sandlapper

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