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The Art of Blessing the Day : Poems with a Jewish Themeby Marge PiercyISBN 0375404775 (0-375-40477-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Body of Glassby Marge PiercyISBN 014015602X (0-14-015602-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Braided Livesby Marge PiercyISBN 0140062130 (0-14-006213-0)
Softcover, Northwestern University Press
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City of Darkness, City of Lightby Marge PiercyISBN 0140266062 (0-14-026606-2)
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Colors Passing Through Us : Poemsby Marge PiercyISBN 0375415378 (0-375-41537-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Crooked Inheritance: Poemsby Marge PiercyISBN 0307265072 (0-307-26507-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crooked Inheritance: Poems'Book summary:In these powerful, often funny, sometimes lyrical, and down-to-earth poems, Marge Piercy writes of her crooked inheritance physical and personality traits from wildly mismatched parents, and in a larger sense the marvelous half-broken world we inherit. Even her hometown Detroit provides a double legacya slum girlhood that breeds in her both wild ambition and, where you would least expect it, a love of nature, which she discovers in the citys elms, the thing of beauty on grimy smoke-bleared streets.
Some of Piercys strongest poems have always been political, and here are important new verses raging against the war in Iraq, the abandonment of Katrinas victims ( People penned to die in our instant / concentration camps, just add water ), and the ongoing attempts to suppress womentheir rights, their bodies, their minds, their very being: The CIA should hire as spies / only women over fifty, because we are the truly invisible.
Other poems are about her life on Cape Cod, where she finds sanctuary in the long natural rhythms of the years cyclegardening, making pesto, hearing coyotes in the winter yelping in chorus after a kill, a place where after weeks of rain and snow, the sun gives birth to rosebushes, and everything revealed is magical, splendid in its ordinary shining. Here, too, are wonderful love songs, about friends, lovers, a beautiful day, animals, making bread.
Deep connections to Jewish life and ritual reveal themselves in poems about her Lithuanian grandmother, about holidays, about the peace in a time of war that ceremony can bring, an evening of honey on the tongue . . . a puddle of amber light . . . faces of friends . . . darkness walling off the room from what lies outside.
These marvelous poems remind us anew of the breadth and strength of Marge Piercys poetic vision. A superb collection to read and treasure. [via]More editions of The Crooked Inheritance: Poems:
Dance the Eagle to Sleepby Marge PiercyISBN 0340156473 (0-340-15647-3)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Eight Chambers of the Heart : Selected Poemsby Marge PiercyISBN 0140236376 (0-14-023637-6)
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Gone to Soldiersby Marge PiercyISBN 0140107371 (0-14-010737-1)
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High Cost of Livingby Marge PiercyISBN 0070433836 (0-07-043383-6)
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The Longings of Womenby Marge PiercyISBN 014023649X (0-14-023649-X)
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Sex Warsby Marge PiercyISBN 0060789875 (0-06-078987-5)
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Sleeping With Cats: A Memoirby Marge PiercyISBN 0060936045 (0-06-093604-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleeping With Cats: A Memoir'Book summary:A stirring memoir from the acclaimed writer praised by Thomas Pynchon for having "the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love for the truth and a need to tell it."
Called "breathtakingly ambitious" by the New York Times for her novels' forays into war, history, the lives of the homeless, and the minds of cyborgs, Marge Piercy, one of the few writers of our time to be highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her lens inward for the first time as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She revisits the people and places that have shaped her experiences and inspired her work. And she pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed: her beloved cats.
With searing honesty Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, Sleeping with Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself. A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, Sleeping with Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story.
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Small Changesby Marge PiercyISBN 0140099549 (0-14-009954-9)
Softcover, Northwestern University Press
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Summer Peopleby Marge PiercyISBN 0140122893 (0-14-012289-3)
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The Third Childby Marge PiercyISBN 0060936037 (0-06-093603-7)
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Three Womenby Marge PiercyISBN 0060937025 (0-06-093702-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Women'Book summary:The heroine of Marge Piercy's Three Women is something of a feminist trailblazer: the first woman to teach constitutional law at her big-city university. At five feet three inches, however, Suzanne Blume feels "too small for her role in the world." To compensate, this pint-sized divorcee has transformed herself into a human dynamo, obsessively slicing and dicing the time she devotes to her mother, her two daughters, her students, and her e-mail boyfriend. Yet this rigorously arranged world is turned upside down when her problematic older daughter moves in, followed by her stubborn, ailing mother.
Suzanne's addiction to the clock infuriates her offspring--indeed, Elena has deliberately "chosen to go to the other extreme, exalting spontaneity." And her mother, Beverly, remains a fiery, left-wing activist to the end, spurning such bourgeois amenities as the datebook. It's the ultimate challenge, then, for these three women to peacefully cohabit. What's worse, they're beset by a series of calamities, some shocking, some mundane. Yet this high-tension ménage à trois ultimately learns the value of mutual support and familial love. And along the way, Piercy plunges right into the deepest, most elemental stuff of life: sex, betrayal, aging, illness, and death. She's both brave and compassionate in her exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters--but no less brave than the characters she has created. By the time you finish reading Piercy's 15th novel, you'll find it difficult to leave the Blumes to their own, unmistakably feminine devices. --Laura Mirsky [via]
Vidaby Marge PiercyISBN 0140062270 (0-14-006227-0)
Softcover, Northwestern University Press
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