Full Description
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 chaos, battle it out simultaneously through the interplanetary and domestic worlds.
Contents
I. REAPING
These Hands
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Bag Lady
The Ringmaster's Desertion
The Ceiling
Regret
Giverny in New York
The Taxidermist
'The Fish'
The Will
Pearls
II. THRESHING
An Idea of Disorder
The Wager
Terms of Art
Elegy for a Husband
A Sighting
The Frequency
Lacemakers
Sailing on the Lake of Mars
This Worthless Act
The Winter Solstice
Necropolitans
Simple Choices
III. WINNOWING
The Last Door
The Other Side
Icicles of Brine
Three Variations in A Minor Key
1. Waltz
2. Etude
3. Nocturne
The Old Woman Is Talking with Death
Certain Evenings
Falling Awake
