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In The Crooked Inhertitance (now in paperback) you'll find poems on the U.S. occupation of Iraq, health care reform, 'the poet as a young nerd,' love, and family.
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In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. |
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Appearing in various collections and spanning two decades, Marge Piercy's liturgical poems have been recited in people's homes and places of worship; in wedding and shabbat services; in rituals of the Passover Seder, Rosh Chodesh, and the Jewish High Holy Days. |
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“Piercy at the top of her form. A timely
and important recording. Highly Recommended.”
—Library Journal (starred review) |
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One of three books of poetry named by the American Library Association as Notable Books of 1997, In their citation of the award, they say "Piercy provides a portfolio of poignantly evoked poems in this collection of her memories, thoughts and interactions with life and love." |
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First published
by Alfred A. Knopf in 1982, and continuously in print ever since,
Circles on the Water is home to some of Marge Piercy’s best
loved and most requested poems. |
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"These are wise poems, ripe with the sweetness of apples, pithy with tartness of truth. Each is a veritable parable of right living minus any hint of sour righteousness. Absolute awe is the core. This is Marge
Piercy at her best." -Joy Harjo |
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"The Cycle of poems based on the Celtic Lunar
Calendar, which gives her book its title happens to be marvelous...All
these poems are interesting, some are masterpieces."
Anne Stevenson, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (London) |
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"Early Grrrl shows the skeptical eye how poets are born. This collection has many delights for Piercy fans . . . This is an important book. Many poems here are unpublished elsewhere. Many are indispensable works from one of America's most important poets."
— The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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In all, MY MOTHER'S BODY is one of Piercy's most
powerful and balanced collections. |
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Poems about the disintegration of a marriage, divorce and life afterward. The sequence "Elementary Odes" (the title is in homage to Pablo Neruda) consists of poems that passionately embody the ecological side of feminism. |
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Marge Piercy's eleventh collection of poetry is
unusually rich and diverse. These are poems of extraordinary immediacy,
strength and humor, poems of deep passions and far-ranging concerns:
poems written at mid-life and illuminated by the "available
light" of a mature and generous perception. |
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“Marge Piercy is one of the best poets I’ve seen.”
-- Stephen Dobyns, Poetry |
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The year is a wheel that turns but does not
return us to where we were. An issue is as real to me as the apples
on my trees, and that they sometimes have worms in them is political
action, as is loving, as is talking, as is shaping these poems from
the energy that comes through me from and for so many people, whose
lives cross and touch, as we struggle enmeshed, sometimes blind
and sometimes seeing and sometimes seeing each other." |
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Published in the United Kingdom by Penguin, the British selected poems |
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"Angry, alive, loving, real poetry: not feminine,
but powerfully female."
--Kirkus |
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Online Sampling of Marge's Poetry: |
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| City
of Darkness, City of Light |
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| Some
Poems from Early Grrrl |
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Poems from The Moon is Always Female |
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