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22. Woman On The Edge Of Time (Marge Piercy) - Book Review
I only read Woman on the Edge of Time because I twice saw it favourably compared with Ursula Le Guin s The Dispossessed, but I enjoyed it so much that I
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Ballantine Books 1983 A book review by Danny Yee I only read Woman on the Edge of Time because I twice saw it favourably compared with Ursula Le Guin 's The Dispossessed , but I enjoyed it so much that I have since read most of Marge Piercy's other novels. Woman on the Edge of Time is both a searing indictment of some of the fundamental assumptions of our society and an intriguing portrayal of a "utopian" alternative. Connie, the heroine, is a 37 year old Mexican-American living on welfare, who is incarcerated in a mental hospital and subjected to "mind-control" treatment. The realism of the narrative makes this really chilling (it is reminiscent of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest ) and, combined with the knowledge we gradually acquire of her life story, it paints a bleak and far too plausible picture of how our society has institutionalised oppression of the weak. The story culminates with Connie's resolution to fight back, with a recognition that she is fighting a war on behalf of others as well as herself. To return to the comparison which prompted this review: Le Guin's The Dispossessed was very clearly in the classical anarchist tradition, though it incorporated some ideas from modern linguistics and ecology.

23. Northnode, Inc. - "To Be Of Use" Marge Piercy
by marge piercy. The people I love the best jump into work head first We are grateful to marge piercy for this gem of a poem that has been a source of
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To be of use
by Marge Piercy The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who stand in the line and haul in their places, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

24. RPO -- Selected Poetry Of Marge Piercy (1936-)
marge piercy was born March 31, 1936, in Detroit, of mother Bert Bunnin piercy and father Robert Douglas piercy. She was brought up Jewish by her mother and
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Selected Poetry of Marge Piercy (1936-)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
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Index to poems
You called me bad and I posed like a gutter
queen in a dress sewn of knives. All I feared was being stuck in a box
with a lid. A good woman appeared to me
indistinguishable from a dead one
except that she worked all the time.
(My mother's body, 119-24)
Always unsuitable
Attack of the squash people
Belly good
The cat's song ...
Winter promises
Notes on Life and Works
Marge Piercy was born March 31, 1936, in Detroit, of mother Bert Bunnin Piercy and father Robert Douglas Piercy. She was brought up Jewish by her mother and grandmother. In Early Grrrl , Marge Piercy says, "I started writing poetry regularly and seriously when I was fifteen and my family moved into a house larger by far than we had ever lived in. For the first time, I had a room of my own with a door that closed and some measure of privacy. I was upstairs, with the roomers, while my parents were downstairs" (98).

25. The Low Road
day you mean one more. marge piercy. From The Moon is Always Female , published by Alfred A. Knopf, Copyright 1980 by marge piercy.
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The low road
What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
They can set you up, they can
bust you, they can break
your fingers, they can
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can't walk, can't remember, they can
take your child, wall up
your lover. They can do anything
you can't stop them from doing. How can you stop them? Alone, you can fight, you can refuse, you can take what revenge you can but they roll over you. But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob, a snake-dancing file can break a cordon, an army can meet an army. Two people can keep each other sane, can give support, conviction, love, massage, hope, sex.

26. Marge Piercy Interview With Don Swaim
Listen to the marge piercy interview with Don Swaim in RealAudio on Wired for Books.
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Audio Interview with Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy, author of Circles on the Water Woman on the Edge of Time and Sleeping with Cats , speaks with Don Swaim about what it was like to grow up in Detroit. She also talks about the differences of growing up during the 50s and 60s, the drug culture and issues of feminism. She also discusses her husband, who is also a writer and their eagerness to check each other's work. Listen to the Marge Piercy interview with Don Swaim, 1984
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27. New York State Writers Institute - Marge Piercy Gazette Article
When author marge piercy answers a question shes blunt and direct like many of the characters she has written about. I am a feminist, she said in a
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04/13/03, G-06 By JACK RIGHTMYER Staff Writer Marge Piercy speaks her mind; to read from work at RPI When author Marge Piercy answers a question shes blunt and direct like many of the characters she has written about. I am a feminist, she said in a recent phone interview from her home in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. I dont get weary of it. I get weary of the fallout through the years. There have been many grants I havent gotten because of my politics and what Ive written about, but thats who I am. She is an activist writer, a one-time member of the antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and a person who speaks her mind about politics, the problems of society and inequality. The reason I am political, she said, is that I want there to be a more just apportionment of the worlds pleasure and less unjust apportionment of the worlds pain. Piercy is an author of fifteen novels, a memoir titled Sleeping with Cats, and fifteen collections of her poetry. She has written mainstream fiction, historical novels, science fiction, feminist theory and even liturgy. She collaborated with her husband Ira Wood, the publisher of Leapfrog Press, to write the novel Storm Tide. Her most recent poetry collection, Colors Passing Through Us (157 pages, $23, Alfred A. Knopf) contains poetry about her favorite topics, the lives of women, nature, Jewish rituals, love between men and women, and politics. People call me a prolific writer, she said, I dont really believe that, but I can switch from writing poems, to memoir to novel writing very easily. There are so many things in the world to write about, and I am a curious person, always learning things that fascinate me.

28. Cab Drollery: Sunday Poetry: Marge Piercy
Sunday Poetry marge piercy. A reprise, because we need it. The Low Road What can they do marge piercy (From The Moon Is Always Female )
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Sunday Poetry: Marge Piercy
[A reprise, because we need it.]
The Low Road
What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
They can set you up, they can
bust you, they can break your fingers, they can
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can't walk, can't remember, they can
take your child, wall up
your lover. They can do anything you can't stop them from doing. How can you stop them? Alone, you can fight, you can refuse, you can take what revenge you can but they roll over you. But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob, a snake-dancing file can break a cordon, an army can meet an army. Two people can keep each other sane, can give support, conviction. love, massage, hope, sex. Three people are a delegation, a committee, a wedge. With four

29. Marge Piercy - Authors - Random House
marge piercy is the author of sixteen previous books of poetry. She has also written seventeen novels, including Woman on the Edge of Time; Gone to Soldiers
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30. Marge Piercy On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online
There are 63 conversations about marge piercy s books. Member ratings. Average (3.93) Disambiguation notice. Users with books by marge piercy
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Woman on the edge of time 529 copies, 4 reviews He, she, and it : a novel 327 copies, 6 reviews Gone to soldiers 212 copies, 5 reviews The moon is always female 168 copies, 1 review City of darkness, city of light : a novel 126 copies, 1 review Vida : a novel 120 copies, 1 review Sex wars 110 copies, 5 reviews Small changes 108 copies, 1 review Three women 100 copies, review Summer people : a novel 95 copies, 2 reviews The longings of women : a novel 89 copies, review Braided lives 86 copies, 1 review Sleeping with cats : a memoir 71 copies, 2 reviews 66 copies, review The high cost of living 59 copies, review see all 46 books
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31. Marge Piercy
A bibliography of marge piercy s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
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Search Authors Search Books About Marge Piercy Marge Piercy is renowned as both a poet and a novelist and has won the Arthur C. Clarke award. Her fiction includes Woman on the Edge of Time, Body of Glass, Braided Lives, Small Changes, Three Women (Piatkus) and The Longings of Women. She is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including The Art of Blessing the Day and Early Grrrl. She lives in Cape Cod, US, with her husband, the novelist Ira Wood, and five cats. Novels Going Down Fast Dance the Eagle to Sleep Small Changes Woman On the Edge of Time ... He, She and It aka Body of Glass The Longings of Women City of Darkness, City of Light

32. Marge Piercy From HarperCollins Publishers
marge piercy is the author of the memoir Sleeping with Cats and fifteen novels, including Three Women and Woman on the Edge of Time, as well as sixteen
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Marge Piercy is the author of the memoir Sleeping with Cats and fifteen novels, including Three Women and Woman on the Edge of Time, as well as sixteen books of poetry, including Colors Passing Through Us, The Art of Blessing the Day, and Circles on the Water. She lives on Cape Cod, with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist and publisher of Leapfrog Press. Author Extras
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33. IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
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34. Marge Piercy, Poetry: Issue 10 - The Cortland Review
Poetry of marge piercy in real audio Issue 10 (February 2000) - The Cortland Review.
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ISSUE 10
February 2000 Marge Piercy
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Karen Pepper Marge Piercy is the author of 15 novels, most recently Three Women published in October by Morrow; 14 books of poetry, most recently The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme (Knopf), Early Grrrl: The Early Poems of Marge Piercy (Leapfrog Press), and What are Big Girls Made of? (Knopf). Oh, Veblen, this is much better Years and modes ago, in the heyday of communes, I was in Detroit to give a reading, a benefit. I was put up in Palmer Park, which in my threadbare youth was where people with money lived, when people with money still lived in Detroit. corner room had a black and white marble bathroom, the tub big enough for me and a lover, but I had none with me, with a closet too large for my entire wardrobe, a built in vanity fit for Jean Harlow, where

35. Poems By Marge Piercy
Poems by marge piercy. Poems are presented in HTML with contemporary photos or medieval manuscript illuminations. New poems are added periodically.
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Poems by Marge Piercy
Bridging
The Friend
Never-Never

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36. Poetry Foundation: The Online Home Of The Poetry Foundation
marge piercy (1936) was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1936. An extremely prolific writer, piercy has published 17 volumes of poetry and 17 novels.
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37. MyJewishLearning.com - Holidays: Maggid
A poem by marge piercy. By marge piercy. The following poem expresses the inspiration and spiritual meaning so many Jews and nonJews find in the Exodus
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A Literary Perspective
Maggid
By Marge Piercy
The following poem expresses the inspiration and spiritual meaning so many Jews and non-Jews find in the Exodus story. It is reprinted with permission from Art of the Blessing : Poems With a Jewish Theme (Knopf) The courage to let go of the door, the handle. The courage to shed the familiar walls whose very stains and leaks are comfortable as the little moles of the upper arm; stains that recall a feast, a child's naughtiness, a loud blistering storm that slapped the roof hard, pouring through. The courage to abandon the graves dug into the hill, the small bones of children and the brittle bones of the old whose marrow hunger had stolen;

38. Marge Piercy
Circles on the Water Selected Poems of marge piercy (1982, poetry) Stone, Paper, Knife (1983, poetry) Gone To Soldiers (1988, novel)
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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Marge Piercy Born: 31-Mar
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Gone to Soldiers Resides in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Father: Robert Douglas Piercy (d. 1985)
Mother: Bert Bernice Bunnin Piercy (d. 1981)
Brother: Grant Courtade (half brother, older)
Husband: Michel Schiff (physicist, m. 1958, div. 1959) Husband: (computer scientist, m. 1962, div.) Husband: Ira Wood (novelist, m. 2-Jun-1982) High School: Detroit, MI University: BA, University of Michigan (1957) High School: MA, Northwestern University (1958) Teacher: Indiana University at Gary (1960-62) Students for a Democratic Society Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Phi Beta Kappa Society English Ancestry Paternal Lithuanian Ancestry Maternal Welsh Ancestry Paternal Jewish Ancestry Maternal Official Website: http://www.margepiercy.com/

39. Marge Piercy Biography - Marge Piercy Comments:
1, 1975; Ways of Knowing Critical Essays on marge piercy edited by Sue Walker and Eugenie Hamner, Mobile, Alabama, Negative Capability Press, 1986;
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Find all books written by Marge Piercy on Amazon.com Nationality: American. Born: Detroit, Michigan, 1936. Education: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Hopwood award, 1956, 1957), A.B. 1957; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, M.A. 1958. Career: Tikkun magazine, Oakland, California. Awards: Borestone Mountain award, 1968, 1974; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1978; Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Association medal, 1985; Carolyn Kizer prize, 1986, 1990; Shaeffer Eaton-PEN New England award, 1989; New England Poetry Club Golden Rose, 1990; May Sarton award, 1991; Brit ha-Dorot award, Shalom Center, 1992; Arthur C. Clarke award, 1993; Notable Book award, American Library Association, 1997. Agent: Lois Wallace, Wallace Literary Agency, 177 East 70th Street, New York, New York 10021.
P UBLICATIONS
Novels
Going Down Fast. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1969. Dance the Eagle to Sleep. New York, Doubleday, 1970; London, W.H. Allen, 1971.

40. Marge Piercy - Research And Read Books, Journals, Articles At
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