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by: Marge Piercy
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780394738598
ISBN: 0394738594
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: March 12, 1980
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: March 12, 1980
Sales Rank: 196322
Studio: Knopf
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Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions
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Rating: - Picked it up and Never Put it Down
My copy is the one dog-eared, worn volume always where I can find it on the bookshelf. Usually poetry volumes contain some winners and some losers, but I've read every poem cover to cover repeatedly, had favorites, sent copies to women who inspired me, and loved my copy in some rough times. Piercy's poems raise the bar for what women can be in poetry- hers are real- warts and all. And nevertheless, her first-person poetry makes those flaws both recognizable and even at times endearing. The tragedies ... Read More
Rating:  - Poetry as I like it!
I like poetry with imagery that resolves into a shift in vantage point; this is something of which Marge Piercy is a master. The poems are in some aspects raw and gutsy, others are lyrical and meditative. I read "The Doughty Oaks" outloud to someone who also admired its tight imagery of a miser in rags, and the contradiction at the end of the poem. The last set of poems in the book are based on the Celtic Lunar calendar (in name only, this isn't Wicca) as a way for Piercy to celebrate the lunar ... Read More
Rating: - Never really put this book up!
I bought this book about 18 years ago. For a little while it was on the shelf after I first read the poems. Then it came down. It's been unshelved for casual reading most of the remaining years. There are witty funny silly poems here. There are deep poems. There are honest revelations of different aspects of life. There are deep penetration into the nuts and bolts of love, into the politics of men and women. There are tears and laughter. There are mirrors to see and shar eyour own life and known you aren't ... Read More
Rating: - With Piercy and soul-sisters, women are strong
And not only that, but they are powerful and smelly and they MAKE MISTAKES. There is nothing more empowering than finding out that making mistakes is alright, and that was the strongest message I got from this book when I read it at the tender age of 15. It changed my life, ensuring that I would grow to tell boys "NO", and that I would tell myself "YES", and more than that, that I would be able to forgive myself for both of those answers. "Cats Like Angels" and "For Strong ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful
Such lyrical, fluid, graphic poetry! Marge Piercy's work grabbed me and wouldn't put me down. I couldn't stop reading her poetry.
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