A new collection of poetry and fiction by New York Times-bestselling and award-winning poet, novelist, biographer, and historian Robert Morgan.

Readers of Robert Morgan's literature--the poems, the short stories, the novels, the biographies and histories--will be richly rewarded with this collection. Evoking personal memory and regional and national history, which for half a century Morgan has poignantly and enduringly rendered in his books, the fourteen poems and three short stories of THE ORATORIO THAT WAS TIME will inform, delight, and haunt its audience. "Morgan," notes Helena Mar