Dark Energy

Praise for Robert Morgan's most recent poetry collection, Terroir:

"There is such clarity of vision in these poems that they must be relished. Simultaneously, the poems' pure language belies and eerie and complicated depth in which the natural and the man-made objects in Morgan's imagination speak themselves, endowed as they are with an alien and beautiful sentience. . .the poems are at once expansive and infinitesimal in their considerations, inhalations of context followed by powerful exhalations of image, sonic vibrancy, and metaphor. . .Morgan remains one of our keenest poets of lucidity and attention and makes sacred the peripheral, and often unsung, in Terroir. He stares deeply into that which we rarely consider, as all great poets do. The sheer intensity of his attention elucidates and distills. . .brims with life, a pulse." Oxford American Review

"Morgan [pays] attention to his subjects in a way that affords generous leeway to his and his readers' imaginations. . .and avoids the exhibitionism of sentimentality that allows the emotions of the poet to dominate the lives, experience, and existence of the subjects. " Asheville Poetry Review