A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999

A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999

by Robin Morgan
A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999

A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999

by Robin Morgan

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Overview

Breaking a seven-year silence, the prize-winning poet writes of the stark isolation of confronting love's aftermath, its losses, and its undeniable betrayals.

Robin Morgan's work, celebrated for its vindication of female experience and its evocation of the zeitgeist, is here intensely personal and powerful in new ways. In her sixth book of poems, prize-winning poet Robin Morgan undertakes a radical departure from her previous work, as she locates the landscape of her vision in the stark isolation of a self confronting love's aftermath, its losses, and its undeniable betrayals. In poems documenting a seven-year silence, Morgan's voice emerges markedly different, sounding a singular passage through a private hell of despair, the madness of a "Hot January," to a place of furious peace in which the artist weeps "to recognize the self I'd fled to find."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393321067
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 12/17/2000
Pages: 92
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Robin Morgan lives in New York. She is the author of A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999.

Table of Contents

Forewordix
Part I
Looking Backward3
Learning Clock Patience6
Fireworks9
Country Matters14
The Cool Web17
The Farmer's Wife18
Message Machine20
A Hot January23
Part II
The Butcher's Daughter31
Small Talk Blues32
The Last Time33
The Passion35
Fair Game36
Useless Knowledge37
Samizdat39
Add-Water Instant Blues40
The Ghost of a Garden41
Part III
Universal Donor47
The Spirit Cellar50
Extreme Measures52
Fixed Canon53
Arctic Station55
Col Tempo57
Referred Pain60
Invocation62
Cave Dwellers63
Part IV
Definitions69
Poeme Noir70
Count Down71
Tree Sister72
Breakthrough Bleeding73
Acrobats and Clowns74
Chords77
Creation Myth78
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