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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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2026]
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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.