Name: A Hot January

Author: Robin Morgan
Year: 1999
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9780393321067
0393321061
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'€™s end, these poems slice language with knife-edge bitterness, but within the deliberate constraints of form. Individual poems have become famous: '€œAdd-Water Instant Blues'€ is the most anthologized; '€œCave Dwellers'€ and '€œAcrobats and Clowns'€ have been widely translated; and the various '€œdisguised,'€ 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.
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