Marge Piercy
Who is Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist and writer. Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II. Piercy's work is rooted in her Jewish heritage, Communist social and political activism, and feminist ideals.
Life
Family and early life
Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan to Bert (Bunnin) Piercy and Robert Piercy. While her father was non-religious from a Presbyterian background, she was raised Jewish by her mother and her Orthodox Jewish maternal grandmother, who gave Piercy the Hebrew name of Marah.On her childhood and Jewish identity, Piercy said: ...
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Marge Piercy Poems
- Traveling Dream
I am packing to go to the airport
but somehow I am never packed.
I keep remembering more things
I keep forgetting.
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- To Be Of Use
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.
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- To The Pay Toilet
You strop my anger, especially
when I find you in restaurant or bar
and pay for the same liquid, coming and going.
In bus depots and airports and turnpike plazas
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- Colors Passing Through Us
Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
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- The Neighbor
Man stomping over my bed in boots
carrying a large bronze church bell
which you occasionally drop:
gross man with iron heels
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Comments about Marge Piercy
- Prufrockly: why is marge piercy so good at writing
- Andyeyeballs: how good to fight beside you.
an army of lovers cannot lose,
an army of lovers cannot lose.
how good to fight for each other.
— marge piercy
- Johncar25643508: “we lie in each other’s arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.” – marge piercy
- Trainingmindful: “life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” ~ marge piercy
- Forestservicenw: "let us walk in the woods, says the cat.
i’ll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,
to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt."
- marge piercy
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