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The long-awaited second edition of the critically acclaimed writing lecture and sourcebook based on the worskshops that Piercy has given (with her husband, the publisher Ira Wood) around the country at universities and such venues as the Esalen and Omega Institutes.   A collection of essays and interviews on the subject of poetry and becoming a poet. Published as part of the University of Michigan Poets on Poetry series.
       
Every year, Marge Piercy, beloved poet and novelist, has been making her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Over the years, babies have been born and grown up, friends move and divorce, but over time the principals gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in refreshing with the object above all to create meaning. Making her way through the ritual one item and one practice at a time, she coaxes us toward “a significant contemporary interpretation, rather than an emphasis on what is strictly 'correct' or traditional." A play about a black family in a white neighborhood during the introduction of court ordered busing in Boston. The story is told with humor, insight and passion, providing not only good theatre but remarkably good reading.
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

 

 

 
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