Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy
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Marge Piercy Biography
an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.
Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Mich ...
Marge Piercy Poems
This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.
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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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The bonsai tree
in the attractive pot
could have grown eighty feet tall
on the side of a mountain
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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 construction of a woman:
a woman is not made of flesh
of bone and sinew
belly and breasts, elbows and liver and toe.
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Marge Piercy Quotes
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.
Marge Piercy Comments
Marge Piercy has been my all time favourite poet for several decades now. And she still impresses me.
I came across her work quite by accident while scanning the shelves of a dusty old book store, I was intrigued by the title, 'The Moon is Always Female'. I took it down and was further intrigued by the cover, a painting of the moon being Eclipsed by a grinning, green-eyed Cheshire Cat. I opened it up at random and was intrigued further still by the poem titled 'For Strong Women'. I read the poem, and was hooked for life. Marge Peircy's poetry breathes a sensitive femininity which is calloused with hard-won respect and gritty with the determination to make a better world through her words and experiences. She is not afraid to show her cuts bruises, nor is she afraid to cut and bruise the reader in return with her dagger-sharp words and inescapable imagery that barrels down on you like a freight train. To read her works is to be made very small and very strong, all at the same time.
Dear Great Poetess Marge Piercy, I like very much reading your powerful words in your amazing poetry! Best regards, Sylvia Frances Chan in The Netherlands
Poems of poetess Marge Piercy motivates many of the world readers due to magical effect. We love reading her poems.
Barbie Doll goes to MyPoemList and into my December 2018 showcase. Thanks. bri (:
i just read Marge's Barbie Doll. i found it to be a fantastic write. it's about how people are treated and how they may react when they are NOT 'picture-perfect' [women] as portrayed on covers (and in centerfolds) of magazines, in TV ads, and on couter runways. bri (:
This blew me away. I stumbled upon this by sheer luck. Thank you for sharing this.
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A STORY RESOUNDING OF A WOMAN WITH THUNDEROUS THIGHS THUD, THUD, GARGANUTIOUS PLIGHT ALAS SHE CARRIED A LARGE BULBOUS NOSE MARGE, TRULY APPRECIATIVE OF THY PROSE.