Sigodlin: Poems

by Robert Morgan

Book by Morgan, Robert

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Robert Morgan is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

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Reviews

[Gabriel Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most poets are not household names or even moderately known. The ones that are tend to be wretchedly awful, ie Amanda Gorman and her ilk. I don't scour digests or quarterlies so it could be thirty years before good poetry finds its way to me at the bottom of a sack.

Just so with these poems, which are beautiful.

This guy grew up in the Blue ridge Mountains.

He's still kicking.

Thank you, Robert Morgan.

[Zuska · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second reading: I’ve read this a few poems at a time over the last few days. It’s a very rich collection. Some poems quickly sketch a whole life. Perhaps the most stunning of these is The Road From Elmira, rendering a man’s life and Civil War experience in 80 short lines that hold the reader from beginning to end.
I loved every poem in this collection.

Really loved this book of carefully crafted poems. I read the paperback edition but for some reason goodreads doesn't have a nice image to go with the paperback edition so I'm showing the hardback edition here. This book is highly recommended to poetry fans.