robin morgan

SYNOPSIS

An almost novelistic progression in these poems carries us along routes of self-discovery and affirmation to a transcendant all-self uniting everything alive. This is an important departure for a poet already so accomlished in the major modes of contemporaneous poetry.

Embracing but surpassing her previous themes--including the suffering and rage of women, shared across age, race, and culture boundaries--Morgan here strikes a new chord: the dessication of a marriage, perceived through facets of grief, despair, irony, and hope.

The universality of this love battle appears in a remarkable, complete, one-act play in verse: "The Duel," which had its performance debut on May 7, 1979, at Joesph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, as a production of The "Poets at the Public" Series.

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