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OCTOBER CROSSING
Poems by
ROBERT MORGAN
ISBN 978-0-972117-1-9
Paperback, 48 Pages
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FREDERICK SMOCK
PAX INTRANTIBUS
A Meditation on the Poetry of
Thomas Merton
Clothbound
ISBN 978-0-9721144-6-2
$25.00
FAULT LINES
Poems by
JONATHAN GREENE
Paperback
ISBN 0-9721144-1-6
$14.50
CARL E. KRAMER
CAPITAL ON THE KENTUCKY:
A TWO HUNDRED YEARS
HISTORY OF
FRANKFORT & FRANKLIN
COUNTY
Clothbound
ISBN 978-0-9721144-7-9
$39.99
JONATHAN GREENE
GISTS, ORTS, SHARDS
A Commonplace Book
Paperback
ISBN 0-9721144-5-9
$15.00
STEVEN R. COPE
THE FURRBAWL POEMS
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
1973-1993
Clothbound
ISBN 0-9721144-4-0
$27.50
Paperback
ISBN 0-9721144-3-2
$16.50
SHEILA BUCY POTTER
HOME PLACE AND OTHER
POEMS
Paperback
ISBN 0-9721144-0-8
$14.99
JONATHAN GREENE &
THOMAS MERTON
ON THE BANKS OF
MONKS POND
THE THOMAS MERTON /
JONATHAN GREENE
CORRESPONDENCE
Clothbound
ISBN 0-9721144-2-4
$22.50
VICKIE CIMPRICH
PRETTY MOTHER'S HOME
A Shakeress Daybook
Paperback
ISBN 978-0-9721144-8-6
$16.00
HEART MATTERS
Poems by
JONATHAN GREENE
Paperback
ISBN 978-0-9802117-0-2
$17.50
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PAUL M. PEARSON, editor
A MEETING OF ANGELS:
The Correspondence of
Thomas Merton with
Edward Deming & Faith Andrews
Clothbound
ISBN 978-0-9721144-9-3
$25.00
Robert Morgan is the author of twelve
books of poetry, including T
opsoil Road, The
Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems
,
and  
Groundwork.   Winner of the James G.
Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship of
Southern Writers and the Eunice Tietjens Prize
from
Poetry magazine, he has also received the
Southern Book Award for his novel
Gap Creek
and the Academy Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His
nonfiction book,
Boone: A Biography, was a
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book
Award, and winner of the Kentucky Book
Award. A native of western North Carolina, he
has taught since 1971 at Cornell University.
"Any new collection of poems by Robert
Morgan is a gift, and
October Crossing is
wonderful through and through.  In the past
thirty years I have learned a great deal from
this man, who is exemplary as a poet, as a
prose writer, and as a human being."
   —Ted Kooser

"Robert Morgan's poems are always exciting
for their precise knowledge of country things,
and of how things go in the world of natural
fact and process.  This new collection gives
us also some delightful lore from the
Southern mountains:  we learn of the horse
fiddle, and holy cussing, and the intrepid
pastor who held off bear or panther with his
umbrella."
   —Richard Wilbur

"Forty years after the publication of his first
book,Robert Morgan makes this remarkable
October Crossing.  'Beating back the
blackest shadows…to the pulse of clap and
laughter,' he surely earns the collection’s
final prospect: 'years ahead / as golden as the
leaves on hickories.'"
   —Robert West   

"The best poems in
October Crossing sound
so fresh and strong that it is hard to believe
that Robert Morgan’s first book,
Zirconia
Poems
, came out in 1969, forty years ago.  
Morgan’s distinctive voice still sounds much
the same, honest and straight, but always with
new subtleties and a willingness to move into
new country.  Like Thomas Wolfe and
Wallace Stevens.  Robert Morgan seems to
own October, and he makes the most of it,
mature and original."
     —William Harmon  
Praise for Robert Morgan
and
October Crossing