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    "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush": An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
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    "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush": An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue

    By Robert Morgan

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    Mason-Dixon Lines

    "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"
    poetry by Robert Morgan

    Robert Morgan drives home a similar message with three poems. They address "memory" on the grandest scale— not merely familial or communal but epochal and even geologic.

    " . . . for ten millennia, the bones
    seemed wreckage from a mighty dream . . . "

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUNC Center for the Study of the American South
    Release dateSep 1, 2011
    ISBN9780807882832
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    "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush": An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
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    Robert Morgan

    Robert Morgan is a poet, novelist, and biographer. His most recent book is Boone: A Biography (2007), winner of the Kentucky Literary Award and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is now Kappa Alpha

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