"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

"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 poets, 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 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. with distinction 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. This is his eighth poetry collection and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals, as well as in more than two dozen anthologies. He has won the Discovery Award of the New York Poetry Center, the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Prize, and first prize in the Carolina Quarterly Poetry Contest, among other awards. In addition he earned a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a Rasmuson Fellowship, and was a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2009, he served as the first writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. These days, he and his wife Nancy divide their time between Fairbanks and Bellingham, Washington. For more information, you can visit his website at www.johnmorganpoet.com