Long Mountain is the location of the author's log house, where she was inspired to write many of the poems in this collection. The poems are the observations, reflections and questions of a woman who has passed 50 - a signpost to a metaphorical long mountain.
Long Mountain is the location of the author's log house, where she was inspired to write many of the poems in this collection. The poems are the obser...
This fourth collection of poems by Morgan deals with the illness and death of a beloved man, and the unanswered questions that are inevitably raised by the experience of grief. Still, there are affirmations of a life of the imagination and a life of love here as well. Morgan demands answers to our questions about mortality, all the while believing that there are none. This is a collection about both life's uncertainty and its promise.
This fourth collection of poems by Morgan deals with the illness and death of a beloved man, and the unanswered questions that are inevitably raised b...
Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who appreciates the complexities of the world but finds pleasure in events as predictable as the changing of the seasons or as uncomplicated as a visit to an art museum. Morgan accepts the inevitability of change but mourns the loss of "what we don't know / that we cannot live without."
By couching her wry insights in deceptively simple language, Morgan can commemorate a long-ago game of hide-and-seek in the same darkly humorous tone that she employs to recall tragedies both natural and...
Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who appreciates the complexities of the world but fin...
