{"product_id":"dark-energy-isbn-9780143128069","title":"Dark Energy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new collection from the awardwinning poet and author of the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eGap Creek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the words of \u003ci\u003ePoetry \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, Robert Morgan’s poems “shine with beauty that transcends locale.” The work in his newest collection, rooted in his native Blue Ridge Mountains, explores the mysteries and tensions of family and childhood, the splendors and hidden dramas of the natural world, and the agriculture that supports all culture. Morgan’s voice is vigorous and exact, opening doors for the reader, finding unexpected images and connections. The poems reach beyond surfaces, to the strange forces inside atoms, our genes, our heritage, and outward to the farthest movements of galaxies, the dark energy we cannot explain but recognize in our bones and blood, in our deepest memories and imagination.\u003cb\u003eROBERT MORGAN\u003c\/b\u003e’s books include Boone, a biography of Daniel Boone, Gap Creek (an Oprah Book Club pick), and the poetry collection Terroir. The recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he lives in Ithaca, New York.\u003cp\u003e• CONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eONE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBig Talk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen mountains boomed and boomed again\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereturning echoes all along\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe chain, the Indians said the peaks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere talking to each other in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe idiom that mountains use\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacross the mighty distances,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith giant syllables and rests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite hunters feared it might be guns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor even cannon natives had\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esomehow acquired to warn them from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe better hunting grounds and streams,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe blasts as loud as thunder on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe clearest days and coldest nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeologists would later hold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe groans and barks inside the ridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere shelves of massive, restless rock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat slipped or dropped far down within\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe mountain’s guts, a fracture or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea crashing at some fault as part\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the tectonic conversation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eamong the continents as old\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas planet earth or starry birth,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe gossip of creation’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBig Bone Lick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Big Bone Lick the first explorers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efound skeletons of elephants they said,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efound ribs of woolly mammoths,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etusks of mastodons and ribs of sloths\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat lurched across Kentucky once\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enear twenty feet from snout to tail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey dug out teeth the size of bricks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand skulls of giant bison, beavers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn salty mud licked bare by elk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand deer and buffalo and bears\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor ten millennia, the bones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseemed wreckage from a mighty dream,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea graveyard from a golden age,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor killing ground of titans. Here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey saw the ruins of a world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esurvived by its diminutives,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhere Eden once gave way and shrank\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto just a regular promised land\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto fit our deadly, human scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaguar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Lawson, Bartram, others wrote\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey saw a “tiger” in the hills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand woods of Carolina I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassumed they meant a panther or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea bobcat, never guessed there were\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303206572261,"sku":"NP9780143128069","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143128069.jpg?v=1767724500","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dark-energy-isbn-9780143128069","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}