Robert M. West is a professor of English at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. He is the author of three chapbooks of poems, essays, reviews, and interviews related to Robert Morgan. Jesse Graves is poet in residence and professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. The author of four books of poems, and guest editor of a special issue of Southern Quarterly dedicated to Morgan’s work.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceRobert M. WestI. On the PoetryA Prospect Newly NecessaryFred ChappellRobert Morgan’s Pelagian Georgics: Twelve EssaysWilliam HarmonLooking for Native Ground: Robert MorganRita Sims Quillen“The Witness of Many Writings”: Robert Morgan’s Poetic CareerMichael McFeeMusic’s Mirror: Robert Morgan’s Musica SpeculativaJim ClarkThe Elegiac Strain in Robert Morgan’s PoetryBhisham BherwaniThe Missing as Muse: Treatments of Absence in the PoetryRobert M. WestII. Robert Morgan’s People and PlacesAn Essay and Photo GalleryJesse GravesIII. On the ProseMountain Time: History and Forgetting in The Mountains Won’t RememberPaul Lincoln SawyerBlood Soil Field: The Physicality of The Balm of Gilead TreeSuzanne Booker-Canfield“The Little Clearing of Now”: Storytellers in The HinterlandsRebecca GodwinFaith, Sex, Talk, and Work: The Cornerstones of Community in The Truest Pleasure and This RockGeorge HovisThe Work of Love in Gap CreekMartha Greene EadsTunes from the “Madrigal of Time” in Brave EnemiesHarriette C. BuchananActing in Faith: Robert Morgan’s The Road from Gap CreekThomas Alan HolmesRobert Morgan’s Nonfiction Books: Crossing Over the MountainsTed OlsonIV. In His Own WordsA Sense of PlaceRobert Morgan“No Writing in the Abstract”: An InterviewRobert M. WestA New Robert Morgan BibliographyRobert M. West and Jesse GravesAbout the ContributorsIndex

Robert M. West is a professor of English at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. He is the author of three chapbooks of poems, essays, reviews, and interviews related to Robert Morgan. Jesse Graves is poet in residence and professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. The author of four books of poems, and guest editor of a special issue of Southern Quarterly dedicated to Morgan’s work.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceRobert M. WestI. On the PoetryA Prospect Newly NecessaryFred ChappellRobert Morgan’s Pelagian Georgics: Twelve EssaysWilliam HarmonLooking for Native Ground: Robert MorganRita Sims Quillen“The Witness of Many Writings”: Robert Morgan’s Poetic CareerMichael McFeeMusic’s Mirror: Robert Morgan’s Musica SpeculativaJim ClarkThe Elegiac Strain in Robert Morgan’s PoetryBhisham BherwaniThe Missing as Muse: Treatments of Absence in the PoetryRobert M. WestII. Robert Morgan’s People and PlacesAn Essay and Photo GalleryJesse GravesIII. On the ProseMountain Time: History and Forgetting in The Mountains Won’t RememberPaul Lincoln SawyerBlood Soil Field: The Physicality of The Balm of Gilead TreeSuzanne Booker-Canfield“The Little Clearing of Now”: Storytellers in The HinterlandsRebecca GodwinFaith, Sex, Talk, and Work: The Cornerstones of Community in The Truest Pleasure and This RockGeorge HovisThe Work of Love in Gap CreekMartha Greene EadsTunes from the “Madrigal of Time” in Brave EnemiesHarriette C. BuchananActing in Faith: Robert Morgan’s The Road from Gap CreekThomas Alan HolmesRobert Morgan’s Nonfiction Books: Crossing Over the MountainsTed OlsonIV. In His Own WordsA Sense of PlaceRobert Morgan“No Writing in the Abstract”: An InterviewRobert M. WestA New Robert Morgan BibliographyRobert M. West and Jesse GravesAbout the ContributorsIndex

Robert M. West is a professor of English at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. He is the author of three chapbooks of poems, essays, reviews, and interviews related to Robert Morgan. Jesse Graves is poet in residence and professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. The author of four books of poems, and guest editor of a special issue of Southern Quarterly dedicated to Morgan’s work.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceRobert M. WestI. On the PoetryA Prospect Newly NecessaryFred ChappellRobert Morgan’s Pelagian Georgics: Twelve EssaysWilliam HarmonLooking for Native Ground: Robert MorganRita Sims Quillen“The Witness of Many Writings”: Robert Morgan’s Poetic CareerMichael McFeeMusic’s Mirror: Robert Morgan’s Musica SpeculativaJim ClarkThe Elegiac Strain in Robert Morgan’s PoetryBhisham BherwaniThe Missing as Muse: Treatments of Absence in the PoetryRobert M. WestII. Robert Morgan’s People and PlacesAn Essay and Photo GalleryJesse GravesIII. On the ProseMountain Time: History and Forgetting in The Mountains Won’t RememberPaul Lincoln SawyerBlood Soil Field: The Physicality of The Balm of Gilead TreeSuzanne Booker-Canfield“The Little Clearing of Now”: Storytellers in The HinterlandsRebecca GodwinFaith, Sex, Talk, and Work: The Cornerstones of Community in The Truest Pleasure and This RockGeorge HovisThe Work of Love in Gap CreekMartha Greene EadsTunes from the “Madrigal of Time” in Brave EnemiesHarriette C. BuchananActing in Faith: Robert Morgan’s The Road from Gap CreekThomas Alan HolmesRobert Morgan’s Nonfiction Books: Crossing Over the MountainsTed OlsonIV. In His Own WordsA Sense of PlaceRobert Morgan“No Writing in the Abstract”: An InterviewRobert M. WestA New Robert Morgan BibliographyRobert M. West and Jesse GravesAbout the ContributorsIndex