Harvesting Darkness

Harvesting Darkness is Robin Morgan’s eighth poetry collection, furthering a tonal arc begun with A Hot January and followed by her recent Dark Matter. She is a recipient of the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Prize in Poetry as well as numerous other honors, and her work has been widely translated. She has also published four books of fiction, including the recent novel Parallax, and nine books of nonfiction on social justice issues, primarily feminism, plus her now-classic Sisterhood anthologies. An activist in the global Women’s Movement for decades, recognized as a leading architect of U.S. feminism, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Ms. Magazine, she co-founded The Sisterhood Is Global Institute with the late Simone de Beauvoir and co-founded The Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem.

I. REAPING
These Hands
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Bag Lady
The Ringmaster’s Desertion
The Ceiling
Regret
Giverny in New York
The Taxidermist
‘The Fish’
The Will
Pearls

II. THRESHING
An Idea of Disorder
The Wager
Terms of Art
Elegy for a Husband
A Sighting
The Frequency
Lacemakers
Sailing on the Lake of Mars
This Worthless Act
The Winter Solstice
Necropolitans
Simple Choices

III. WINNOWING
The Last Door
The Other Side
Icicles of Brine
Three Variations in A Minor Key
1. Waltz
2. Etude
3. Nocturne
The Old Woman Is Talking with Death
Certain Evenings
Falling Awake