<div>A riveting exploration of terrorism&rsquo;s relationship to sex, with a new preface by the author Terrorism is the international crime that has captured the attention of the entire world, forcing governments to make radical changes in security and civil liberties. Meanwhile, everyone tries to comprehend the real reasons that inspire such violence. This is where political philosopher Robin Morgan begins The Demon Lover, a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and a bestseller in the print edition. Through her globe-spanning examination of terrorism, Morgan unearths the roots of the phenomenon. With wide-ranging research across historical eras and a three-hundred-sixty-degree approach, she examines how violence has become eroticized&mdash;and conflated with masculinity&mdash;to the lethal detriment of both women and men. Recent scientific studies referenced in the preface to this edition prove just how ahead of her time Morgan has been with her analysis. Her account of her own personal experience with militant tactics adopted by US radicals in the 1960s and 1970s is extraordinary, and her reports on and interviews with Palestinian women in the refugee camps of the Middle East&mdash;women confiding for the first time, as women, details of their lives under terrorism every day&mdash;are deeply moving. Morgan also offers a compelling vision of hope for change, and an afterword includes her famous &ldquo;Letters from Ground Zero,&rdquo; written after 9/11. The Demon Lover is Robin Morgan at her most intelligent and unforgettable.</div>

The Demon Lover

<div>The debut poetry collection from one of feminism&rsquo;s most passionate voices, with a new preface by the author Well 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. But Monster is more than just a book; it has become a phenomenon. Written at a time of political turmoil during the birth of contemporary feminism, the title poem was adopted by women as the anthem of the women&rsquo;s movement; it was chanted at demonstrations and some of its lines became slogans. &ldquo;Arraignment&rdquo; stirred an international controversy over Ted Hughes&rsquo;s influence on Sylvia Plath&rsquo;s suicide&mdash;complete with lawsuits, the banning of this book, and the publication of underground, pirated feminist editions, all of which Morgan reveals in her new preface. From her well-wrought poems in classical forms to the searing energy and poignant lyricism of the longer, later ones, Morgan&rsquo;s work when it was first released spoke to women hungry for validation of their own reality&mdash;and the book sold thirty thousand copies in hardcover alone in its first six months, which was unheard of for poetry. Available now for the first time in years, Monster is an intense, propulsive journey deep into the heart of one of feminism&rsquo;s greatest heroes. </div>

Monster

<div>The evolution of the poet who is one of feminism&rsquo;s greatest living voices Robin 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 wants to understand the nature of Morgan&rsquo;s oevre. Her intensity is infectious and stimulating, but ultimately her lyricism and empathy are what keep readers coming back to this volume again and again. There are blistering invectives that were quoted on feminist posters, buttons, and bumper stickers; poems so controversial they were banned in certain countries; and works so personal and vulnerable they lodge in the heart.</div>

Upstairs in the Garden

<div>Feminism from the front lines A founder of the contemporary global women&rsquo;s movement, Robin Morgan is widely known as one of feminism&rsquo;s strongest, most persuasive activists. As a writer, she is unique in her ability to distill ideas into smart pieces of nonfiction that can transform a reader&rsquo;s worldview forever. The Word of a Woman follows Morgan&rsquo;s journalism and shorter prose from the 1960s through the early 1990s. Originally published in 1992, this second edition adds five new essays. An annotated version of her famous, fiery &ldquo;Goodbye to All That&rdquo; is here, as are essays that expose the connections between violence against women and pornography, explain the effects of female genital mutilation, and show how sexism and racism are intimately connected. She tells inside stories about having organized the first Miss America Pageant protest, writes poignantly about being a feminist raising a son, and pens a letter to be read one thousand years in the future. She reports on her work with Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip, with Filipina prostitutes in South Asia, and with village women in South Africa&mdash;and celebrates finding indigenous feminism wherever she goes. Morgan unveils creative, visionary yet pragmatic ways for women to unite, regardless of barriers. Her message of defiant hope will inspire any woman&mdash;and man&mdash;who reads it. </div>

The Word of a Woman

<div>An amazing trajectory: From child star to prize-winning writer to feminist icon Robin 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, &ldquo;Saturday&rsquo;s child had to work for a living.&rdquo; She had her own radio show on New York&rsquo;s WOR, Little Robin Morgan, by the time she was four; starred during the Golden Age of television in TV&rsquo;s Mama from ages seven to fourteen; and was named the Ideal American Girl when she was twelve. In Saturday&rsquo;s Child, she writes for the first time about her working youth, her battles to break away from show business and from her mother, her search for her absent, abandoning father, her entrance into the literary world, and the development of her politics, relationships, and writing. Morgan describes her tumultuous but successful life with startling honesty: her flight from child stardom into literature, her twenty-year marriage to a bisexual man, her joyful motherhood, her lovers, both male and female, her actions as a &ldquo;temporary terrorist&rdquo; on the left during the 1970s, and her travels and experiences in the global women&rsquo;s movement. She writes about compiling and editing the famous anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful and Sisterhood Is Global and later cofounding with Simone de Beauvoir the Sisterhood Is Global Institute. Saturday&rsquo;s Child follows this &ldquo;Ideal American Girl&rdquo; on her path to becoming the feminist icon she is today. Epic in scope, witty, and bravely insightful, this is the tale of half of humanity rising up and demanding its rights, told through the intensely personal story of one remarkable woman. </div>

Saturday's Child

<div>The classic of feminist vision by one of its greatest writers, with a new preface by the author With the advent of Einstein&rsquo;s Theory of Relativity, physics and our world changed forever. In The Anatomy of Freedom, Robin Morgan shows us how the empowerment of women&mdash;half of humanity&mdash;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 women&rsquo;s movement as a crucial struggle for equal rights; she sees this process as the fundamental motor for freeing both women and men, and as a necessity for the survival of sentient life and of the planet itself. She explains and demystifies theoretical physics in accessible terms and, astonishingly, uses it as a prism through which to view the equation of relationships and gender, while going deep into the subconscious and plumbing the roots of passion. At the same time, she makes vital connections between these internal realities and global issues of the environment, economics, and family. There has perhaps never been a book more daring. The Anatomy of Freedom shows a master at her peak.</div>

The Anatomy of Freedom

<div>The personal papers of one of feminism&rsquo;s most passionate leaders, with a new preface by the author As an activist for social justice, Robin Morgan has acquired a reputation for strong convictions and a life-affirming way of expressing them through writing. Nowhere is this more evident than in Going Too Far, which takes us behind the scenes in Morgan&rsquo;s life and in the women&rsquo;s movement until 1977. We watch the development of an organizer who is a complex thinker while Morgan evolves as a mother, leader, writer, and activist. Morgan&rsquo;s keen eye is trained on all aspects of modern feminism, and this is reflected in the juxtaposition of the journal entries and letters of her personal life with the essays and polemics that shape her public persona. Her opinions on marriage, love, religion, pornography, and art are as utterly fresh and timely today as they were decades ago. Her growing wisdom and depth of perception are apparent in the book&rsquo;s progression, and her last chapters, focused on what she terms the &ldquo;metaphysics of feminism,&rdquo; will change a reader&rsquo;s world view for the better&mdash;and forever. </div>

Going Too Far

<div>Love transcends all barriers in this modern fairy tale When the Mer-Child learned the story of the Little Mermaid, he recognized it as the account of his mother and father, the beautiful mermaid and the human man for whom she sacrificed everything. But that love had left their offspring, the Mer-Child, stranded between worlds, as unwelcome in the realm of the sea as in the earth above. Never fitting in, he has been left to wander, searching for friends, his silvery tail fluttering mournfully in the waves. One day he notices a little girl sitting on the beach. Her father must carry her to and from the shore each day because her legs are paralyzed. Her father is black, her mother white, and she is as much an outcast in both communities as the Mer-Child is in his own. Slowly, warily, they find kinship, both in their differences and in their similarities, and they form a bond that changes them forever. What each learns about the value of being different makes this modern-day fairy tale a new classic, with two memorable characters and an enduring message. </div>

The Mer-Child

<div>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 change In this book of transitions, Robin Morgan&rsquo;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 slow dissolution of a marriage, parsed in poems of alternating hope and despair, humor and fury&mdash;and also in a tragicomic, two-character, one-act verse play, &ldquo;The Duel: A Masque.&rdquo; The play, which inverts the Orpheus-Eurydice myth, was performed at the Public Theater in New York City. Praised by the literary world for her technique, but dedicated to keeping her craft accessible and impassioned, Morgan takes us through inevitable deaths and resurrections of the self in pitch-perfect language shot through with dazzling imagery and irony. </div>

Depth Perception

<div>Robin Morgan&rsquo;s second collection of poems is a rich tapestry of female experience, both literal and mythic Daughter, 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&mdash;especially in the four major metaphysical poems here: &ldquo;The City of God,&rdquo; balancing grace and despair; &ldquo;Easter Island,&rdquo; on the ironies of transcendence in embattled love; &ldquo;The Network of the Imaginary Mother,&rdquo; which became a virtual anthem of the women&rsquo;s movement; and &ldquo;Voices from Six Tapestries,&rdquo; inspired by the famous Lady and theUnicorn weavings that hang in the Mus&eacute;e de Cluny in Paris. Themes of familial love and hurt, mortality, survival, and transformation inform the poems collected here as the author weaves a wise and powerful self into being. Lady of the Beasts is Robin Morgan at her most lyrical yet. </div>

Lady of the Beasts

<div>Robin Morgan&rsquo;s lyrical gifts are again on display in this limited edition of four of her most celebrated poems Prostituted women, pimps, Alice B. Toklas, and Bertha Mason&mdash;Edward Rochester&rsquo;s mad first wife in Jane Eyre&mdash;all make appearances in a poem titled &ldquo;Battery,&rdquo; a word that, in Morgan&rsquo;s hands, has surprising meanings. Affirmation underscores the perfect Shakespearian sonnet, &ldquo;Birthright,&rdquo; as it counsels a defiant gaze at life and death. The life of a flower and the process it undergoes to blossom is the subject of &ldquo;Peony,&rdquo; with an utterly fresh metaphor that widens to embrace the planet. And the title poem, with its witty play on words, rips through denial in all its forms to find hard but bracing truths. </div>

Death Benefits

<div>Celebrated for her exquisitely crafted poems revealing an alternate female reality, award-winning poet and bestselling author Robin Morgan gives us, in this fifth collection, her most intimate work yet The poems gathered here trace a stunning spectrum of love, betrayal, loss, pain, rage, and survival. Skirting madness in the wake of a tempestuous relationship&rsquo;s end, these poems slice language with knife-edge bitterness, but within the deliberate constraints of form. Individual poems have become famous: &ldquo;Add-Water Instant Blues&rdquo; is the most anthologized; &ldquo;Cave Dwellers&rdquo; and &ldquo;Acrobats and Clowns&rdquo; have been widely translated; and the various &ldquo;disguised,&rdquo; subtle sonnet forms throughout the book have been used to teach the art of writing poetry. Art itself becomes the healing theme, and a number of the poems here are in dialogue with other poets, including Marianne Moore, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Blake, and Robert Graves. The wise voice that emerges dares celebrate a quiet joy, tempered only by fire. </div>

A Hot January

<div>A powerful and essential anthology that sheds light on the status of women throughout the world Hailed by Alice Walker as &ldquo;one of the most important human documents of the century,&rdquo; this collection of groundbreaking essays examines the global status of women&rsquo;s experiences, from oppression to persecution. Originally published in 1984, the compilation features pieces written by a diverse set of powerful women&mdash;journalists, politicians, grassroots activists, and scholars&mdash;from seventy countries. Author Robin Morgan, a champion of women&rsquo;s rights herself, expertly weaves these inspiring essays into one comprehensive feminist text. These compelling &ldquo;herstories&rdquo; contain thoroughly researched statistics on the status of women throughout the world. Each chapter focuses on a different country and includes data on education, government, marriage, motherhood, prostitution, rape, sexual harassment, and sexual preference. Sisterhood Is Global transcends political systems and geographical boundaries to unite women and their experiences in a way that remains unequalled, even decades after its first publication. </div>

Sisterhood Is Global

<div>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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s, her marriage of twenty years is steadily disintegrating, and money is scarce. Though Julian is a famed feminist spokeswoman and published poet, when she looks into the mirror, she doesn&rsquo;t recognize herself. That and the novel she is writing are giving her a terrible time. Dry Your Smile takes readers on a journey into Julian&rsquo;s past&mdash;from the precarious circumstances surrounding her birth to the lies and stories her mother wove about her absent father to her childhood diary and dreams, and her subsequent escape into the arms of a revolutionary artist and a bohemian life. In the present, Julian delves into the emotional baggage imparted by her Jewish stage-mom as a means of taking off the many masks she has worn over the years, and begins writing prose through the voice of her younger self. She also searches for a new future in a lesbian love affair with Iliana, a bisexual photographer and the one person who makes Julian feel beautiful. In the end, however, perhaps what Julian needs most is to separate herself from the expectations and images of others, and truly listen to the woman she has become. A roman &agrave; clef of author and poet Robin Morgan&rsquo;s own struggles with what it means to be a female writer in the late twentieth century, Dry Your Smile is an intelligent and cathartic addition to any feminist library. </div>

Robin Morgan

Books By Robin Morgan (14 Books)