Who is Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. 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 sweeping historical novel set during World War II.Life Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Bert (Bunnin) Piercy and Robert Piercy. Upon graduation from Mackenzie High School, Marge became the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Winning a Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction (1957) enabled her to finish college and spend some time in France. She earned a M.A. from Northwestern University. Her first book of poems, Breaking Camp, was published in 1968.
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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. ... - 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. ... - 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 ... - 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, ... - 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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- Pearlwhitney19: “life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” – marge piercy
- Posenlibrary: “the work of the world is common as mud. botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. but the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.” search “piercy ” on
- Bonesivybreath: why does my life so often feel like a slither of entrails pouring from a wound in my belly? with both my hands i grasp my wet guts, trying to force them back in. — marge piercy, intimacy
- Cpostcapitalism: we should have a society like in marge piercy's woman on the edge of time, where infant names are provisional and people routinely rename themselves at major life transitions.
- Dhan_ime_myself: a strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” – marge piercy always there for rashami
