Poems that underscore how we commune with those long loved and long
gone. In Far Company, we hear Cindy Hunter Morgan thinking about
the many ways we carry the natural world inside of us as a kind of
embedded cartography. Many of these poems commune not only with
lost ancestors but also past poets. We hear conversations with
Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Walt Whitman, and W. S. Merwin.
These poets, who are part of Hunter Morgan's poetic lineage, are
beloved figures in the far company she keeps, but the poems she
writes are distinctly hers. Poet Larissa Szporluk remarked, "The
poems in this collection are quiet and deceptively simple. My first
response was to be amazed by a seeming innocence in
delivery-straightforward, picturesque, and compassionate-that then
matured like a crystal into something precious and masterful. We
are left with the whole forest having met all the trees one by one.
There is so much respect in this collection-respect for natural
processes that include intergenerational relationships, shared
territories, and myths. The poems in Far Company reveal a mind and
a heart negotiating both self and world with compassion and
invention. They are cinematic in the way they navigate loss,
memory, dislocation, hope, and love-abstractions evoked in deeply
specific and nuanced ways. There is the drone that flies over
Hunter Morgan's grandparents'farm before the house burns and the
stag-handled knife in a pocket, its single blade "folded inside
like a secret" on a train in Greece. But this collection is full of
quieter cinema, too-a grandfather bending to cinch the girth of a
horse, days "green / with snap peas and wild tendrils," and
"raindrops beading like sweat/ on the lips of snapdragons." The
root of this book is Hunter Morgan's love for family and her love
for the land her family has shared. These poems map a journey to
many places, inward and outward, and engage with the natural world
and the built world, moving between both of those environments in
ways that acknowledge the complexities of such crossings. Often
melancholic but never sentimental, this collection belongs with any
reader who seeks out literature in the organic world.
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