Robert Morgan 
‘Big Bone Lick, ‘ ‘Big Talk, ‘ and ‘Flush’ 
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue

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 . . . ‘

关于作者

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