The Hungers of the World

By: John Morgan

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“These poems are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man.” ANNIE DILLARD Pulitzer Prize winner “Morgan demonstrates that he understands the complexity and the enormous possibilities of the free-verse line. These poems are exposed, rich with affirmation, and always genuine.” BRUCE WEI...

ISBN	978-1-915022-33-2
Pub Date	Saturday, April 08, 2023
Page Count	174
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“These poems are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man.”
ANNIE DILLARD

Pulitzer Prize winner “Morgan demonstrates that he understands the complexity and the enormous possibilities of the free-verse line. These poems are exposed, rich with affirmation, and always genuine.”
BRUCE WEIGL in Choice

“‘River of Light: A Conversation with Kabir’ is a testament to the mystical power of the northern landscape and its denizens. All the small stories and images Morgan brings to the poem come together to create an ecosystem of sorts in these very wild and very human pages.”
CLEA ROBERTS in The Northern Review

“Morgan writes of the natural beauties of his earth, Alaska. The land and its creatures are changed by human reason and a philosophy that brings comfort. What a beautiful human endeavor Morgan’s life is, expanding our vision with colorful masterful work. Poetry that is of service.”
GRACE CAVALIERI in The Washington Independent Review of Books

“John Morgan, one of our finest poet, draws on incandescent creation-laden words to reveal the ‘authentic wilderness’ that flourishes within us and, yes, without us.
MICHAEL WATERS editor of Contemporary American Poetry

John Morgan

John Morgan studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard, where he won the Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry. At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop he earned his M.F.A. and was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska to direct the creative writing program at the University of Alaska. Morgan’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, The Young American Poets (Follett) and many other magazines and anthologies. He won the Discovery Award of the New York Poetry Center, as well as first prize in the Carolina Quarterly Poetry Contest. In 2009, he served as the first writer-in-residence at Denali National Park.