The Nancy Poems celebrates a long-term marriage, beginning with the first date in 1964. It’s a love story but with complications, including a miscarriage and a child with epilepsy. After starting their family on the East Coast, the couple’s lives took a surprising turn when they moved to Alaska, and the dazzling northern landscape features in many of these poems. The portrait of Nancy and her poet husband evolves and deepens over the years as the chapbook explores their enduring relationship.

These poems are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man.
— Annie Dillard

Sixty years of marriage, moments tender as a butterfly appearing indoors at ten below, moments terrifying as a young son’s seizures. The Nancy Poems offer the inside story, the grief, joy, and astonishment of two people curious about one another. Cue the violas, cue the poetry. Lovely and complex, this music, these lines.
— Peggy Shumaker, Alaska State Writer Laureate 2010-2012

Morgan demonstrates that he understands the complexity and the enormous possibilities of the free-verse line. These poems are exposed, rich with affirmation, and always genuine.
— Bruce Weigl in Choice