Dark Matter: New Poems

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Robin Morgan

I‘ve had me up my sleeve

I‘ve pulled me from my hat

I’ve planted myself in the audience

as the patsy I dare to decipher my tricks—

safe I can never see through me.

The Magician and The Magician's Assistant--

I‘ve been both for so long . . .

from here on in, all that’s left is the magic.

In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry.  Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life.  This powerful collection contains the now-famous poems Morgan reads in her TED Talk —viewed online more than a million times and translated into 24 languages.

Dark Matter is an unforgettable book.

2018 | ISBN 9781925581430 | Paperback | 210 x 148 mm | 82 pp

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Robin Morgan

I‘ve had me up my sleeve

I‘ve pulled me from my hat

I’ve planted myself in the audience

as the patsy I dare to decipher my tricks—

safe I can never see through me.

The Magician and The Magician's Assistant--

I‘ve been both for so long . . .

from here on in, all that’s left is the magic.

In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry.  Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life.  This powerful collection contains the now-famous poems Morgan reads in her TED Talk —viewed online more than a million times and translated into 24 languages.

Dark Matter is an unforgettable book.

2018 | ISBN 9781925581430 | Paperback | 210 x 148 mm | 82 pp

Robin Morgan

I‘ve had me up my sleeve

I‘ve pulled me from my hat

I’ve planted myself in the audience

as the patsy I dare to decipher my tricks—

safe I can never see through me.

The Magician and The Magician's Assistant--

I‘ve been both for so long . . .

from here on in, all that’s left is the magic.

In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry.  Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life.  This powerful collection contains the now-famous poems Morgan reads in her TED Talk —viewed online more than a million times and translated into 24 languages.

Dark Matter is an unforgettable book.

2018 | ISBN 9781925581430 | Paperback | 210 x 148 mm | 82 pp

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Table of Contents

III. Grey Matter

No Signs of Struggle

Grey Matter

1. Movement Disorder

2. On Donating My Brain to Science

3. Images

Uniquely Human

Looking on the Bright Side

At the Edge of a Wheatfield

The Ghost Light

Bodily Know

IV. Dark Matter

A Worm of Robins

The Young Artists at Rockwood Music Hall

Trying to Write a Poem at the Very Last Minute

The Excavation

Disclosure

Reading the Bones

This Dark Hour

Disappear

I. Doing the Blood Work

The Magician and the Magician’s Assistant

Barbarina’s Cavatina

Doing the Blood Work

1. The Inheritance

2. Not by Halves

The Fossil of A Young Woman

Ice Dancing

The Contortionists

Kigali, 1994

Compass

II. The New Old Woman

The New Old Woman

Hunger

Bioluminescence

Transmitting Gravity

Giants at the Corner Table

Needlework

Meteor Shower

Final Proof

When poet Robin Morgan found herself facing Parkinson’s disease, she distilled her experiences into these four quietly powerful poems — meditating on age, loss, and the simple power of noticing.

Reviews

Five star review.
Robin Morgan's "magnum opus." Truly her finest work to date––and that's saying something. The poem "This Dark Hour" in Dark Matter is worth the price of this book on its own. Her TED lecture where she read four of these poems was powerful to say the least, but reading them oneself brings the power of these poems home. Can't recommend this enough.

—Sara McGuinessAmazon.com

Five star review.This is one of Morgan’s most reflective poetry. Even if the underpinning subject is “dark” there are luminous shadows amidst the texts. It is a frankly wise and short discourse on the end of matter, pain and joy of living. And yes, political as well in its deepest sense. I frankly recommend its reading and sharing.

—Isel RiveroAmazon.com

FIVE STARS. This collection read like one long glorious, insightful and playful reflection and celebration of life, love, friendship and death. Read by Morgan as a TED Talk and viewed online more than a million times...I'm not surprised.

—Sally Piper, authorGoodReads

In her new collection, Dark Matter, Robin Morgan explores themes that have been prevalent throughout her life as she details her experiences in ageing and her diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The collection starts with her beautiful poem, The Magician and The Magician’s Assistant where she invites the reader into her thoughts and her sense of self. Much of the collection invites the reader to look at their perceptions of ageing and death and focuses on her love of poetry and words. 

..Robin hones her craft through these pages and has said herself that she thinks this is her best published poetry collection to date. She chooses her words with careful thought and explores her ideas passionately. Her love for poetry inspires a beautiful sense of wonder and awe in this poet and ignites a fire in the feminist in us all.

..Dark Matter by Robin Morgan is an absolute masterpiece and should be shared with everyone willing to listen.

—Nik ShoneOther Terrain

In Dark Matter, her seventh poetry collection, Morgan cannily exploits poetry’s ability to be both metaphoric and direct. The voice is often conversational and anecdotal, at other times it is layered and allusive. What drives the collection is a deep and passionate intensity, which only a life spent in endless interrogation and interaction with self and world can achieve and sustain.

—Patricia SkyesLive Encounters