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Excerpt from Memoir of Augustus De Morgan: With Selection From His LettersShould any portion of what I have written appear un called for, it must be remembered that I could not touch my husband's side of the question without placing the whole before my readers. The insertion of the lengthy justifica tion of the Council by members of the Senate will, I trust, exempt me from the charge of having suppressed arguments on the other side.About the P...

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.

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The poems in Elizabeth Morgan's first full-length collection celebrate the joy and confront the contradictions of human relationships, the heart's capacity to expand with love or contract with sorrow and pain. In a poetic voice that combines confidence and rigorous honesty with vulnerability, and simplicity of expression with complexity of powerful emotion, Morgan offers us a singular vision of a life in process, sensitive to its own growth in...

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On Long Mountain, in Virginia, one can hike a stretch of the Appalachian Trail or walk the old wagon road that Shenandoah farmers traveled to deliver their goods over the Blue Ridge Mountains east to the James River markets. Also on Long Mountain is the 180-year-old log house where Elizabeth Seydel Morgan wrote, or was inspired to write, many of the poems in this exquisite collection. Though solitude and the abundant natural world in the Blue ...

In her second collection of verse Elizabeth Seydel Morgan establishes herself as a poet of fierce honesty and originality. The Governor of Desire examines the world through the lens of our emotions, a perspective from which we see how everything connects--nature, politics, passion, terror, anger, grief. Morgan's poems are miracles of perception and grace. They shine with the sort of luster that comes only with unrelenting rigor and flawless cr...