sails and fly, ever westward, to the open water.” Hayden Carruth has written of Morley’s work, “"How simple the language is, not a rhetorical gesture, not an unnecessary adjective, yet heightened by interweaving lines, cadences, and tones, by urgency of feeling and fineness of perception. We have these expressive works, indispensable to what we call American literature.” "Morley manages to speak clearly and sparely of what is least sayable: the sense that we inhabit a living web, not as separate beings but as molecules of a larger and elastic whole," wrote Geoffrey O'Brien in The Village Voice. After living in New York for three decades Morley moved to Sag Harbor on Long Island for most of her last decade. In 1997, she returned to London, which had been a longtime wish, where she died on March 23, 1998 after a fall. Publications Poetry A Blessing Outside Us (1976) To Hold in my Hand (1983) What Are Winds and What Are Waters (1983) Cloudless at First (1988) Between the Rocks (1992) The Turning (1998) External links An Essay on Hilda Morley's Poetry (pdf) For Hilda by Robert Creeley Article: Brian Conniff, 'Reconsidering Black Mountain: The Poetry of Hilda Morley', American Literature, 65 (1993), pp. 117-130. (Link to Jstor Database: Needs Login information) Hilda Morley biography at the Poetry Foundation 1916 births 1998 deaths Writers from New York City American people of Latvian-Jewish descent 20th-century American poets American women poets Black Mountain poets Jewish American poets Modernist women writers People from Sag Harbor, New York 20th-century American women writers Burials at Green River Cemetery 20th-century American Jews