Robin Morgan: Poet, Scholar, Activist, Feminist and Mage
Robin Morgan has been a major inspiration since I read her book of poetry, “Monster,” in 1972. I still have it here somewhere, having managed to hang on to it through all the years and all the moves, trans-continental and trans-Atlantic. I was reading a lot of poetry and a lot of feminism back then, and this small volume attracted me because its first soft-cover edition had the famous image of the fierce-looking, bare-breasted little Minoan serpent goddess (with the black cat on her head) on the cover. It was a beautiful, terrible, angry paean to women’s power re-emergent (“beautiful and terrible like an army with banners…” ~ Song of Songs). It has been called ‘the anthem of the Women’s Movement,’with thirty thousand copies selling in the first 6 months alone — unheard of for a book of poetry let alone by a new writer. The full poem is here:
https://earlybirdbooks.com/monster-by-robin-morgan-the-anthem-of-the-womens-movement
Robin Morgan has appeared in most of Starhawk’s and The National Film Board of Canada’s films on the return of the Goddess, and also in the documentary about Marija Gimbutas, feminist scholar and archeologist who established the history of the lost matrifocal civilization of Old Europe. She and this illustrious company of Second Wave Feminists, who congregated in the Bay Area/San Francisco in the mid-1970s, are largely responsible for the crafting of the ‘Original Values Statement’ manifesto for the Green Movement, which is presented in full here:
https://www.academia.edu/35856087/The_Original_Values_Statement_Ten_Key_Principles_of_the_Green_Movement_Introduction
