Robert Morgan is fond of quoting Hollis Summers, who has said, “The point of a story is always the point beside the point.” “Peripheral vision”, as Morgan sees it, is what is important in a poem or story. “It is not so much what is said,” Morgan records in his critical collection Good Measure, “as what is evoked, is enacted, by language” (137). Certainly, the vision evoked in Morgan’s writing and the “spots of time” that he has created in such poems as “Cellar”, “Blowing Rock”, “Mowing”, and in the novels – The Hinterlands (1994), The Truest Pleasure (1995), Gap Creek (1999), This Rock (2001), and Brave Enemies (2003) – have been shaped b…
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Citation: Shurbutt, Sylvia Bailey. "Robert Morgan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 February 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11695, accessed 26 November 2024.]
