{"product_id":"the-strange-attractor-new-and-selected-poems-9780807129524","title":"The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.-- \"Poetry\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Louisiana State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807129524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.86h x 6.16w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/20\/2007 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Robert Morgan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644060135580,"sku":"9780807129524","price":20.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a40f52c1-844c-453e-8acd-6d20e87bb364.jpg?v=1603857829","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-strange-attractor-new-and-selected-poems-9780807129524","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}