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Title: Like looking through an old woodpile
Review: These poems by Robert Morgan, North Carolina's poet laureate and author of several novels, including the bestseller "Gap Creek," and numerous volumes of poetry, are like picking through a woodpile, looking for dry kindling. Most burn brilliantly with the earthy essence of the Southern Appalachians, and most are like kindling: they burn quickly. His poems are conversational and simple, and they deal with such subjects as farming, lumbering, and ramblings through the forest. They have intellectual weight but are not self-referential, since Morgan writes about real life in the mountains. A lovely book, and an absolute bargain for only two bucks--while other poets are asking fifteen dollars for volumes of poetry of a similar length. I woulnd't normally describe a book in monetary terms, but this one is a great value.
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