In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery weve come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life. This powerful collection contains the now-famous poems Morgan reads in her TED Talk - viewed online more than a million times and translated into 24 languages.
Robin Morgan has published over twenty books, including six poetry collections. Her first, Monster, caused an international furore; her TED Talk reading of Dark Matter poems has garnered over one million downloads. She is a recipient of the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Prize in Poetry and her work has been widely translated. An activist in the global Womens Movement for decades, recognised as a leading architect of U.S. feminism, and a former Editor-in-Chief of MS. magazine, she co-founded The Sisterhood Is Global Institute with Simone de Beauvoir and cofounded The Womens Media Center with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem. You can read more about Robin at www.robinmorgan.net
In Dark Matter, her seventh poetry collection, Morgan cannily exploits poetrys ability to be both
metaphoric and direct. The voice is often conversational and anecdotal, at other times it is layered and allusive. What drives the collection is a deep and passionate intensity, which only a life spent in endless interrogation and interaction with self and world can achieve and sustain. - Patricia Skyes, Live Encounters