She sleeps naked, wearing pearls, to play her part. Robin Morgan' s latest collection is a tour-de force: poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs the emotions. Robin shares her joys and intimacies which take centre stage and laments ' the ringmaster' s desertion' as death hovers in the wings and aging unfolds, while laughing at the pain / through the gridlocked traffic in my brain. Light and shadow, sleep and wakefulness, holding tight and letting go, regret and contentment, order and ...

In Parallax, Robin Morgan's most radiant prose welcomes you into her dazzling imagination. This is a story about storytelling––a set of shorter tales which, like Russian dolls, nest and fit together to reveal a larger one. A fable for the future and a prediction about the past, Parallax is a luscious story that demands immediate rereading the moment you finish. It's a story that surprises you and invites you to play with the patterns inside its paradoxes, whose characters...

I've had me up my sleeve I've pulled me from my hat I've planted myself in the audience as the patsy I dare to decipher my tricks— safe I can never see through me. The Magician and The Magician's Assistant-- I've been both for so long . . . from here on in, all that's left is the magic.In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice ri...

An amazing trajectory: From child star to prize-winning writer to feminist iconRobin Morgan is famous as a bestselling author of nonfiction, a prize-winning poet, and a founder and leader of contemporary feminism . Before all of that, though, she was a working child actor. From the age of two, "Saturday's child had to work for a living." She had her own radio show on New York's WOR, Little Robin Morgan, by the time she was four; starred during the ...

The debut poetry collection from one of feminism's most passionate voices, with a new preface by the authorWell before Robin Morgan was known as a feminist leader, literary magazines published her as a serious poet, and in 1979 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry. Monster, her first collection, originally published in 1972, contains work that will astonish, disorient, and move readers in powerful ways....

A former child actor searches for her true self in this novel-within-a-novel from a leader of the international feminist movement.Before she even turned fourteen, Julian Travis made enough money as a TV star to support her mother for life in an apartment in one of Manhattan's best buildings. But now, Julian is in her midforties and things are not so glamorous or easy. Her mother is slowly dying of Parkinson's, her marriage of twenty years is steadily disintegrating,...

This fourth book of poems from award-winning author Robin Morgan has an almost-novelistic shape, with plot twists that are realizations of self, other, and the nature of changeIn this book of transitions, Robin Morgan's poetry crosses the boundaries of age, race, culture, and gender. The lifelong love-hate passion between mother and daughter is here, as is a vivid, rhetoric-free depiction of the suffering and rage of women cross-culturally. Morgan also traces the sl...

The classic of feminist vision by one of its greatest writers, with a new preface by the authorWith the advent of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, physics and our world changed forever. In The Anatomy of Freedom, Robin Morgan shows us how the empowerment of women—half of humanity—will have the same transformative power for society that e=mc2 had for the physical world.This is not simply another feminist treatise. Morgan looks beyond the wo...

A powerful and essential anthology that sheds light on the status of women throughout the worldHailed by Alice Walker as "one of the most important human documents of the century," this collection of groundbreaking essays examines the global status of women's experiences, from oppression to persecution. Originally published in 1984, the compilation features pieces written by a diverse set of powerful women—journalists, politicians, grassroots activists, and scholar...

The evolution of the poet who is one of feminism's greatest living voicesRobin Morgan has always been one of the most original, technically skilled, and impassioned writers in American poetry, and Upstairs in the Garden shows the development of her distinctive voice.This book of selections from her previous volumes of poetry, plus new additions, summarizes the verse of two decades of iconoclastic work, and is an ideal starting place for a reader who ...

Robin Morgan's lyrical gifts are again on display in this limited edition of four of her most celebrated poemsProstituted women, pimps, Alice B. Toklas, and Bertha Mason—Edward Rochester's mad first wife in Jane Eyre—all make appearances in a poem titled "Battery," a word that, in Morgan's hands, has surprising meanings. Affirmation underscores the perfect Shakespearian sonnet, "Birthright," as it counsels a defiant gaze at life and death. The life of a flo...

Robin Morgan's second collection of poems is a rich tapestry of female experience, both literal and mythicDaughter, wife, mother, lover, artist, and even priestess are all here in shorter lyrics that cluster around four subjects: blood ties, activism and art, love between women, and archetypes. But Morgan surpasses the political grief and rage she delineated in Monster, her acclaimed first book of poems—especially in the four major metaphysical poems here:...