{"title":"Robert Morgan","description":"Robert Morgan is the author of several books of poems, most recently Terroir (2011) and Dark Energy (2015). He has published a dozen works of fiction, including the New York Times bestseller Gap Creek (1999). Among his nonfiction books are the national bestseller Boone: A Biography (2007) and Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (2023). He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A native of western North Carolina, he is currently Kappa Alpha Professor of English (Emeritus) at Cornell University.Randall Wilhelm is a writer, editor, and researcher who lives in Clemson, South Carolina. He is editor of Uplands: Selected Stories of Robert Morgan, Conversations with Robert Morgan, Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash, and The Ron Rash Reader.","products":[{"product_id":"lions-of-the-west-heroes-and-villains-of-the-westward-expansion-paperback","title":"Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one another, and collectively impact history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the North American continent, from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John \"Johnny Appleseed\" Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Their stories--and those of the nameless thousands who risked their lives to settle on the frontier, displacing thou- sands of Native Americans--form an extraordinary chapter in American history that led directly to the cataclysm of the Civil War. 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I believe this book will be of interest to Robert Morgan's fans and scholars--and to those interested in American and Appalachian literature and history.\"--Sandra L. Ballard, editor of \u003ci\u003eListen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor six decades, Robert Morgan has been a preeminent voice in southern Appalachian literature. Growing up in Green River, North Carolina, in the 1950s, he absorbed a variety of influences to inform his later work: his family's haunting stories, explorations of the mountainous landscape, paperbacks from a bookmobile, lessons from a kind elementary school teacher. Decades later, his acclaimed writing resulted in a fifty-one-year career at Cornell University, a plethora of literary awards, and a place on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list. The essays collected in this volume reveal the ways Morgan writes about literature with the same reverence he uses to describe his homeplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dead Alive and Busy\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays on the author's personal history, masters of prose, and significant poets. Morgan's catalogue of literary interests is a melting pot of global traditions, from Leo Tolstoy to Appalachian writers such as Thomas Wolfe and Wilma Dykeman. His analysis covers writers \"in a community across time\"--including Poe, Hemingway, McCarthy, Carl Sandburg, and the Appalachian poets Jeff Daniel Marion and Jim Wayne Miller. 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For approximately 150 of these young men and women, this was only the beginning. They were taken to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where prison authorities subjected them to days of abuse, humiliation and punishment under horrific conditions. Most were African Americans in their teens and early twenties. Authors G. Mark LaFrancis, Robert Morgan and Darrell White reveal the injustice of this overlooked dramatic episode in civil rights history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377944002783,"sku":"9781540236777","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/h6nwxltx-W9781540236777.webp?v=1789243644"},{"product_id":"to-honor-the-imagined-whole-poems-paperback","title":"To Honor the Imagined Whole: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the poems in \u003ci\u003eTo Honor the Imagined Whole, \u003c\/i\u003ea new collection of verse from Robert Morgan, are concerned with music. The longest, \"The Oratorio That Was Time,\" celebrates the discovery by a youth that music surrounds us, not only in the call of a quail in fields and doves in morning fog, or in sounds of wind and thunder, music at church and on the radio, but in the late-night creak of a house, the distant bark of a dog, rippling water, the ache of silence, consciousness, and time itself. Other poems recall the notes of an ancestor's harmonica, a faraway cowbell, a mandolin played by an unpopular step-grandmother. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Accompanying poems address subjects drawn from recent events, such as the sweet growing solipsism of pandemic lockdown, and the simultaneous sense of lateness and anticipation in our lives. In other poems, Morgan seeks to illustrate and understand discoveries of contemporary science, the surprising poetry of the everyday, and the way history impacts the present on the most unexpected occasions. Besides music, a leading theme of the book is the power of family stories. Morgan writes of how people long gone but vivid in memory, through bonds of kinship--sometimes painful, often liberating--create a sense of community and recognition across time.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378771820767,"sku":"9780807187098","price":22.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e91kfyB7DD9780807187098.webp?v=1789261699"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-morgan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}