Monster: Poems by Robin Morgan
By Robin Morgan
good earlier than Robin Morgan was once often called a feminist chief, literary magazines released her as a major poet, and in 1979 she acquired a countrywide Endowment for the humanities inventive Writing Fellowship in poetry. Monster, her first assortment, initially released in 1972, comprises paintings that would astonish, disorient, and movement readers in strong ways.
But Monster is greater than only a ebook; it has turn into a phenomenon. Written at a time of political turmoil throughout the start of up to date feminism, the identify poem was once followed by way of ladies because the anthem of the women’s circulate; it was once chanted at demonstrations and a few of its traces turned slogans. “Arraignment” stirred a global controversy over Ted Hughes’s effect on Sylvia Plath’s suicide—complete with proceedings, the banning of this ebook, and the e-book of underground, pirated feminist variations, all of which Morgan finds in her new preface.
From her well-wrought poems in classical types to the searing strength and poignant lyricism of the longer, later ones, Morgan’s paintings whilst it was once first published spoke to girls hungry for validation in their personal reality—and the publication offered thirty thousand copies in hardcover on my own in its first six months, which used to be exceptional for poetry.
on hand now for the 1st time in years, Monster is an severe, propulsive trip deep into the center of 1 of feminism’s maximum heroes.
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