{"product_id":"the-strange-attractor-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unfading poetic brilliance of Robert Morgan shines through these ninety-three pieces spanning thirty-five years. Celebrated for his recent fiction, Morgan makes obvious in this volume he was first, and remains foremost, a wordsmith of poetic sensibilities--a craftsman of taut, forceful imagery, alert with wonder to the mystery of what lies in plain sight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Robert Frost, Morgan takes the natural world as a metaphorical base for human projection. Much of his work is a love song to the Appalachian Mountain terrain and a way of life all but gone: his father speaking in tongues; his mother canning peaches; carpentry, farming, the seasons in slow motion, family history, and wind-borne strains of music. He captures the aura around such common objects as resin, cellars, hog-wire fence, the whippoorwill, and crickets. Infusing his poetry with mountain idiom, even when pondering the cosmos beyond, Morgan creates lyrics with a rhythm like rain--\"to be rocked to sleep by mountains \/ equals the rest of heroes.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFourteen new poems open the volume, and selections from nine previous collections follow. Robert Morgan's \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Attractor \u003c\/i\u003egrants readers a generous overview of an important American poet's work.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Morgan grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and currently lives in an old farmhouse outside Ithaca, New York, with his wife, Nancy. He is the author of eleven books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eTopsoil Road, \u003c\/i\u003eand is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Campbell- Brockman Poetry Award, the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the \u003ci\u003eGreensboro Review \u003c\/i\u003eAmon Liner Poetry Prize, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's Eunice Tietjens Prize. He has also published eight novels, among them \u003ci\u003eGap Creek, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 137\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8.86 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722870493247,"sku":"9780807129524","price":28.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3aa3ab9d648326b74ea99de6b97c5aa9.webp?v=1765097236","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-strange-attractor-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}