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Marge Piercy
(1936 - / Detroit / United States)
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21 poems of Marge Piercy
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''She never felt much in common with gay men; it was like telling her she ought to feel empathy with child molesters because they were both defined by the law as sexual deviants.''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist. The High Cost of Living, ch. 3 (1978).
Referring to the character Leslie.
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''when I work I am pure as an angel
tiger and clear is my eye and hot
my brain and silent all the whining
grunting piglets of the appetites.''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "The Moon is Always Female," lines 9-12 (1980).
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''The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "The Organizer's Bogeyman," lines 20-24 (1969).
Written during the Vietnam Wa...
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''This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps
yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just
that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned out star.''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "The Peaceable Kingdom," lines 53-55 (1968).
Written during the Vietnam War; ...
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Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision,
only when we are the wind together streaming and singing,
only in the dream we become with our bones for spears,
we are real at ...
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "The Provocation of the Dream," lines 81-85 (1976).
Piercy was a prominent ac...
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The token woman carries a bouquet of hothouse celery
and a stenographer's pad; she will take
the minutes, perk the coffee, smile
like a plastic daisy and put out
the black cat of h...
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "The Token Woman," lines 4-9 (1976).
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
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I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax muse...
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Three Weeks in a State of Loneliness," lines 22-23, 28-30 (1976).
On a "Visi...
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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.
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "To Be of Use," lines 19-22, 26-27 (1973).
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