The Strange Attractor

by Morgan, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780807129524
• ISBN10: 0807129526
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Author Biography

Robert Morgan grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and currently lives in an old farmhouse outside Ithaca, New York, with his wife, Nancy. He is the author of eleven books of poems, including Topsoil Road, and is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Campbell-Brockman Poetry Award, the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Greensboro Review Amon Liner Poetry Prize, and Poetry magazine's Eunice Tietjens Prize. He has also published eight novels, among them Gap Creek, which was a New York Times Notable Book, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Table of Contents

New Poems
Under Cover	3	(1)
Fasting	4	(1)
Triolet	5	(1)
Natural Radio	6	(1)
Wrecking Bar	7	(1)
Funny Books	8	(1)
Family	9	(1)
Signal Corps	10	(1)
Legends	11	(1)
The Strange Attractor	12	(1)
Time's Music	13	(1)
Trophy	14	(1)
Rhymer Spring	15	(1)
Church Dust	16	(3)
Zirconia Poems
High Country	19	(1)
From a Cliff	20	(1)
Water Tanks	21	(1)
Beginning	22	(1)
Elegy	23	(1)
Zirconia	24	(1)
Prayer Meeting	25	(1)
Long Beach	26	(3)
Red Owl
Cellar	29	(1)
Resin	30	(1)
White Pines	31	(1)
Hog-Wire Fence	32	(1)
Whippoorwill	33	(1)
Exhaustion	34	(1)
Toolshed	35	(1)
Cedar	36	(1)
Bees Awater	37	(4)
Land Diving
Double Springs	41	(1)
Roost Tree	42	(2)
Face	44	(1)
Pumpkin	45	(1)
Compass	46	(1)
Land Diving	47	(1)
Paradise's Fool	48	(3)
Trunk and Thicket
Mockingbird	51	(12)
Groundwork
Mountain Bride	63	(1)
Death Crown	64	(1)
Canning Time	65	(1)
Bean Money	66	(1)
Wallowing	67	(1)
Bricking the Church	68	(1)
Burning the Hornet's Nest	69	(1)
Zircon Pit	70	(1)
Secret Pleasures	71	(4)
At the Edge of the Orchard Country
Passenger Pigeons	75	(1)
Horace Kephart	76	(1)
Buffalo Trace	77	(1)
White Autumn	78	(2)
Yellow	80	(1)
Manure Pile	81	(1)
Lightning Bug	82	(1)
Radio	83	(1)
The Gift of Tongues	84	(1)
Bellrope	85	(1)
Uncle Robert	86	(3)
Chant Royal	89	(2)
Firecrackers at Christmas	91	(2)
Man and Machine	93	(2)
Field Theory	95	(4)
Sigodlin
Sigodlin	99	(1)
Audubon's Flute	100	(1)
Inertia	101	(1)
Odometer	102	(1)
Rearview Mirror	103	(1)
Vietnam War Memorial	104	(1)
Mountain Graveyard	105	(1)
Heaven	106	(1)
Sidney Lanier Dies at Tryon 1881	107	(2)
Writing Spider	109	(1)
The Body of Elisha Mitchell	110	(1)
Shaking	111	(1)
The Way Back	112	(1)
When He Spoke Out of the Dark	113	(4)
Green River
Ghosts in the Carpet	117	(1)
We Are the Dream of Jefferson	118	(1)
Appleglow	119	(1)
Earache	120	(1)
Subduction	121	(4)
Topsoil Road
Topsoil Road	125	(1)
Wild Peavines	126	(1)
Squatting	127	(1)
Care	128	(1)
Mowing	129	(1)
Polishing the Silver	130	(1)
Family Bible	131	(1)
Chicken Scratches	132	(1)
Harvest Sink	133	(1)
History's Madrigal	134	(1)
The Grain of Sound	135	(1)
Honey	136	(1)
June Bug	137