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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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“Piercy at the top of her form. A timely
and important recording. Highly Recommended.”
—Library Journal (starred review) |
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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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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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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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"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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"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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In all, MY MOTHER'S BODY is one of Piercy's most
powerful and balanced collections. |
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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Many poems here are unpublished elsewhere.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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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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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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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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“Marge Piercy is one of the best poets I’ve
seen.”
-- Stephen Dobyns, Poetry |
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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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| Some
Poems from The Moon is Always Female |
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