The dead alive and busy : selected essays of Robert Morgan / edited by Randall Wilhelm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Robert, 1944- Author.

Contributor:

Wilhelm, Randall, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morgan, Robert, 1944-.

Morgan, Robert.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

342 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2026]

Summary:

"For 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. The Dead, Alive, and Busy 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The poetry of place / The place of poetry

Nature is a stranger yet

Work and poetry : the father tongue

Fertile North Carolina

Reading Tolstoy's War and peace

Wildacres

Leo's house

Thomas Wolfe and the whole wide world catalogue

Albert Bierstadt and the millennium

From the Blue Ridge to the Rocky Mountains : Thomas Wolfe and the American West

Wilma Dykeman's Family of earth : this was peace

Cormac McCarthy : the novel raised from the dead

The wisest book I ever read : Doctor Zhivago

James McConkey and the quest for the sacred

Hemingway and the true poetry of war

The mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

Carl Sandburg : populist among the moderns

Concord constructivist and Yankee Doodler : the poetry of William Harmon

The reign of King Stork : Geoffrey Hill's early poetry

Jeff Daniel Marion : poet of the Holston

Jim Wayne Miller : a radiating presence

The authority of poetry

Afterword. Healing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Morgan, Robert, 1944- Dead, alive, and busy

ISBN:

9798895270523

OCLC:

1522801547