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Robert Morgan (b. 1944) is one of the most distinguished writers in
southern and Appalachian literature, celebrated for his novels,
poetry, short fiction, and historical and biographical writing,
totaling more than thirty volumes. Morgan's work gives voice to the
traditionally underrepresented people of southern Appalachia, and
his appearances in such popular venues as The Oprah Winfrey Show,
National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and the New York Times
Bestseller List have contributed to his wide readership and
successful dismantling of Hollywood stereotypes that still dog the
region in the nation's larger consciousness. His writing makes a
case for the dignity of work, the beauty and terror of the
landscape, and the essential value of creating a community and
learning to live in the world. The interviews in Conversations with
Robert Morgan provide readers and scholars the first stand-alone
book on Morgan's long and fascinating career as a master of
multiple genres, and make a significant contribution to the
understanding of American, southern, and Appalachian literature and
culture. Collected here are five decades of interviews that cover
such topics as literary influence, the impact of war on family and
community, poetic and narrative craft, the role of environmentalism
in American literature, and the journey from impoverished North
Carolina mountain boy to award-winning Ivy League professor. Morgan
is Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell University, where he
has taught since 1971. Readers will learn about writing across
multiple genres, craft that can be learned and practiced by a
writer, and studying the past for those present truths that create
what Morgan values most in literature, "a community across time.
Robert Morgan (b. 1944) is one of the most distinguished writers in
southern and Appalachian literature, celebrated for his novels,
poetry, short fiction, and historical and biographical writing,
totaling more than thirty volumes. Morgan's work gives voice to the
traditionally underrepresented people of southern Appalachia, and
his appearances in such popular venues as The Oprah Winfrey Show,
National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and the New York Times
Bestseller List have contributed to his wide readership and
successful dismantling of Hollywood stereotypes that still dog the
region in the nation's larger consciousness. His writing makes a
case for the dignity of work, the beauty and terror of the
landscape, and the essential value of creating a community and
learning to live in the world. The interviews in Conversations with
Robert Morgan provide readers and scholars the first stand-alone
book on Morgan's long and fascinating career as a master of
multiple genres, and make a significant contribution to the
understanding of American, southern, and Appalachian literature and
culture. Collected here are five decades of interviews that cover
such topics as literary influence, the impact of war on family and
community, poetic and narrative craft, the role of environmentalism
in American literature, and the journey from impoverished North
Carolina mountain boy to award-winning Ivy League professor. Morgan
is Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell University, where he
has taught since 1971. Readers will learn about writing across
multiple genres, craft that can be learned and practiced by a
writer, and studying the past for those present truths that create
what Morgan values most in literature, "a community across time.
For more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the
landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his
youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story
collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an
often marginalized region. His many honors include four NEA
Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as television appearances (The
Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South, Prize Stories:
The O. Henry Awards). This first book on Morgan collects
appreciations and analyses by some of his most dedicated readers,
including fellow poets, authors, critics and scholars. An
unpublished interview with him is included, along with an essay by
him on the importance of sense of place, and a bibliography of
publications by and about him.
Home to extraordinary writers such as William Styron, Tom Wolfe,
and Ellen Glasgow, the state of Virginia’s literary past is among
the most prolific in the nation. Indeed, this state, with its
beautiful and varied ecosystems—Appalachia, Chesapeake Bay, the
Shenandoah Valley, and Virginia’s beautiful beaches, just to name
a few—seem to serve as the landscapes from which equally varied
and nutritive writers spring, from the lyrical, often ecstatic
meditations of Charles Wright to the poignant, dynamic narratives
and lyrics of Ellen Bryant Voigt, from the moving narratives of
Rita Dove to the formal mastery and wit of R. T. Smith. Series
Editor William Wright, along with Volume Editors J. Bruce Fuller,
Jesse Graves, and Amy Wright, have collaborated to bring readers a
wide-ranging survey in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX:
Virginia. This volume seeks to emphasize the uniqueness of the
poetic voices of Virginia. In doing so, the editors have
acknowledged and included many celebrated writers from the recent
past as well as relatively new, diverse voices that reiterate the
literary fecundity of one of the most beautiful, revered, and
complicated states in the American South.
The essays collected in Said-Songs range from the personal to the
scholarly and explore the hybrid territory in between, where a
creative writer considers literary craft and how it influences the
generative imagination. Jesse Graves examines the writings of the
people and about the places that have most shaped his own poetry,
including several studies on his ""hometown literary hero,"" the
Knoxville-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize, James Agee. In the
volume's opening essay, Lyric: A Personal History, readers
encounter an emerging poet deeply immersed in the history of lyric
and narrative poems and gain a view into how these literary
traditions shape the writing and revising of his first poetry
collection, the award-winning Tennessee Landscape with Blighted
Pine. Appalachia and its writers hold the central focus of this
collection, but Graves cultivates a space in which poets with
voices and styles as diverse as John Ashbery, Federico Garcia
Lorca, and Adam Zagajewski receive fresh critical attention. These
represent the writers, or the connections between writers, that
Graves could not stop thinking about and felt compelled to try to
understand through the steady concentration of analysis. Every
writer's journey is also the journey of a reader and Graves invites
us to join his ongoing exploration of books, music, and the
literary imagination. The essays and interviews gathered in
Said-Songs trace the evolution of a poet's sensibility from the
early days of a rural eastern Tennessee childhood to the maturing
voice of the writer.
Merciful Days is the fourth collection of poems by East Tennessee
poet Jesse Graves, recipient of the James Still Award for Writing
about the Appalachia from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In a
language that is both plainspoken and lyrical, Graves examines the
connections that hold people together across generations and
against the breaches of time and distance. The landscapes of his
native region possess a mythic beauty and Graves writes of the
animating force it can become in a poet's imagination. He closely
observes animals and plants, the circling of hawks, and the curling
of wild ginger leaves, as well as less palpable phenomena such as
how wind stirs the surface of still water. Merciful Days is a book
of elegies and celebrations. Graves's poems are haunted by the lost
futures of lives cut short, and by speculative narrations of omens
and portents, witches and spirits seen only in reflection. For all
the darkness visible in the world, Graves elevates the great joy of
feeding birds, walking in the woods, and sharing a life, sometimes
only in memory, with the people we love. Those who have passed on
are remembered here and their stories become a source of light. The
new work in Merciful Days will remind readers why Ron Rash has
said, ""These poems have the music, wisdom, and singular voice of a
talent fully realized, and make abundantly clear that Jesse Graves
is one of America's finest young poets.
Specter Mountain is a book-length poetry collaboration between
Jesse Graves and William Wright that imagines the spiritual and
ecological life of an embattled landscape. The collection fuses two
striking poetic visions into a cohesive and innovative new
perspective on nature and the inevitable imprint of human
interaction with wilderness. Readers will gain a sense of the
permanent beauty of rivers and mountains, timeless images of the
sublime, and the grandeur that reaches beyond human life and
influence. Specter Mountain is a book of voices, delivered by an
impressive range of speakers, including even the mountain itself.
Sometimes they speak in chorus and sometimes in isolation, out of
the past and from the future, offering meditations and reflections
on our changing world. These poems reveal a sensitivity to the
passing of time, and to the many losses that people and places
suffer and outlast together. If the mountain is a haunted
landscape, it is also a place of aspiration, where traditions
flourish and customs give meaning to the lives that pass there. In
his preface to the book, celebrated poet and novelist Robert Morgan
says, ""Jesse Graves and William Wright are two of the most
exciting talents in contemporary poetry. Before they have spoken in
distinct and memorable individual voices. In Specter Mountain they
have pooled their considerable gifts and found a synergy that
yields a unique work that will serve as a landmark for our time,
and for many years to come.
Robert Morgan and Kathryn Stripling Byer, Al Maginnes and Cathy
Smith Bowers, Thomas Raine Crowe and Michael McFee, as well as many
new voices. . . Indeed, the variegation of the Tar Heel State's
landscapes, as well as its rich history, is reflected through the
myriad voices of its contemporary verse. As with other volumes of
"The Southern Poetry Anthology," this book--full of a wide gamut of
poetic styles and approaches--will appeal to many readers, prove an
excellent teaching resource for North Carolina students of
literature, and serve as the definitive poetic document for North
Carolina for many years.
Conceived by Series Editor William Wright in 2003, "The Southern
Poetry Anthology" is a projected twelve-to-sixteen volume project
celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South,
published by Texas Review Press. Inspired by single-volume
anthologies such as Leon Stokesbury's "The Made Thing," Gil Allen's
"A Ninety-Six Sampler," and Guy Owen and Mary C. Williams'
"Contemporary Southern Poetry: an Anthology," "The Southern Poetry
Anthology" aspires to provide readers with a documentary-like
survey of the best poetry being written in the American South at
the present moment.
Specifically, the editors' goals are twofold: first, to
re-establish poetry of the South as a major presence in American
literature, and second, to include a greater range of poets from
the South to introduce a new poetic geography, a fresh corpus of
what we understand to be "Southern Poetry."
Every place has its own poetry. For some places, the poetry appears
in the tones of voice between neighbors in the grocery store, or in
the spirit people share when a high school football team brings
them out of their houses on Friday evenings, or even through the
sounds engines make as they idle in traffic on the road out of the
city after a workday. The poetry of Appalachia sings in all those
familiar ways, but also in the music of the particular poems
collected in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Southern
Appalachia. This anthology of contemporary poetry arrives from one
of America's most vibrant literary communities, an area with a rich
storytelling history and beautiful natural landscape, the often
misunderstood Appalachian South. Readers familiar with writing from
Appalachia will be pleased to see work from such favorites as
Charles Wright, Robert Morgan, and Fred Chappell, yet will be
intrigued by the already distinctive voices of emerging talents
like Melissa Range and D. Antwan Stewart. This collection of poems
is the only one of its kind, a snapshot album of a timeless place,
as it is represented at the present moment. "For reasons that are
not entirely clear, there has been an explosion of poetry in the
Southern Appalachian region in recent years. Perhaps this creative
surge has been inspired by the rapid changes in the region, as the
vast hunting ranges of the Cherokees are crossed by superhighways,
and golf courses, casinos, condominiums, and shopping malls spread
into the shadows of the highest peaks. Or perhaps the poetry is a
celebration of a region still discovering itself, its heritage and
resources. What is clear is that much of the best poetry of our
time is being written in or about the Southern mountains, with
unprecedented diversity, artistry, freshness, and humanity. Here is
a poetry of place and people, of history, sometimes sad, often
comic, a poetry of haunting voices, vision, music and story. This
anthology is a showcase of some of the best poetry we have, from
the place the music comes from."--Robert Morgan
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