The dead alive and busy : selected essays of Robert Morgan /

"For six decades, Robert Morgan has been a preeminent voice in southern Appalachian literature. Growing up in Green River, North Carolina in the 1950s, he absorbed a variety of influences to inform his later work: his family's haunting stories, explorations of the mountainous landscape, pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Robert, 1944- (Author)
Other Authors: Wilhelm, Randall (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The poetry of place / The place of poetry
  • Nature is a stranger yet
  • Work and poetry : the father tongue
  • Fertile North Carolina
  • Reading Tolstoy's War and peace
  • Wildacres
  • Leo's house
  • Thomas Wolfe and the whole wide world catalogue
  • Albert Bierstadt and the millennium
  • From the Blue Ridge to the Rocky Mountains : Thomas Wolfe and the American West
  • Wilma Dykeman's Family of earth : this was peace
  • Cormac McCarthy : the novel raised from the dead
  • The wisest book I ever read : Doctor Zhivago
  • James McConkey and the quest for the sacred
  • Hemingway and the true poetry of war
  • The mystery of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Carl Sandburg : populist among the moderns
  • Concord constructivist and Yankee Doodler : the poetry of William Harmon
  • The reign of King Stork : Geoffrey Hill's early poetry
  • Jeff Daniel Marion : poet of the Holston
  • Jim Wayne Miller : a radiating presence
  • The authority of poetry
  • Afterword. Healing.