{"product_id":"strange-attractor-2","title":"Strange Attractor","description":"The 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807365710168,"sku":"9780807129524","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807129524.jpg?v=1778679068","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/strange-attractor-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}