Littoral Zone by RB Morris

Reading this astonishing new book, Littoral Zone, is like coming across the lost writings of Rimbaud's forgotten years or the recovered notebooks of Thomas Wolfe. And yet these poems, prose poems, travel journal entries and song lyrics are unmistakably RB Morris. Lost Pavillion is a "keyhole into the soul" of Morris' beloved Knoxville. Through his words and music this self-described "cloud dreamer and soul singer" is showing us how to re-enchant our disenchanted world.

            -Phil Cousineau

Richard Morris' poetry is an intensely personal voice. His mind is in endless pursuit of life's origins, whether it be following a not-so-crazy old preacher man down to his basement domain for raisin bread and coffee, or watching the clouds and birds follow their own genius above the monument to a great dead writer-- whether tracing the curves of a river, or the curves of a woman. What fills his soul is "old Indian hair/Dirt and wood and grass/Clouds and blue sky." What fills his poetry is a love so deep that it sometimes hurts to read.

            -Gerald Nicosia