October Crossing
Any new collection of poems by Robert Morgan is a gift, andOctober Crossingis wonderful through and through. In the past thirty years I have learned a great deal from this man, who is exemplary as a poet, as a prose writer, and as a human being. --Ted Kooser, Former US Poet LaureateRobert 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 US Poet LaureateForty years after the publication of his first book, Robert Morgan makes this remarkable October Crossing.  "Beating back the blackest shadows...to the pulse of clap and laughter," he surely earns the collection s final prospect: "years ahead / as golden as the leaves on hickories." --Robert West