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Marge Piercy
Often compared to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Naomi Alderman’s The Power - Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction.
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Donna M. Bickford
Grounded in feminism, political activism, and Jewish spirituality, Marge Piercy’s work includes more than thirty volumes of poetry, and fiction written over nearly five decades. Donna Bickford offers a discussion…
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Patricia Doherty
A bibliography of annotated entries for all published English-language materials by or about Marge Piercy from her first poem in 1956 to her latest novel in 1996 including print and…
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Now in paperback, a collection to treasure from one of our most popular poets- poems that range from the Detroit of her childhood to her current life on Cape Cod…
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Now in paperback: the superb selection from Marge Piercy’s nine most recent books, the heart of her mature poems.
This gathering of Piercy’s poems is the first selected since Circles…
Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air. Immigrants are pouring into the city, bringing a new spirit in their wake. Among them is…
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Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-distant, half-brother, this major new collection by one of our bestselling poets then goes on to include both serious and funny…
Piercy writes of women and poetry and of woman becoming poet
More than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982.
America in the fifties meant McCarthyism and Ban the Bomb, jitterbug and jazz, girls in padded bras and clinging pastel twin-sets - but that was not all. In this story…
A vivid tale following Vida, a beautiful activist in the 60’s now on the run in the underground 70’s. This revealing novel chronicles the activities of an extraordinary band of…
Marge Piercy’s debut collection of short stories, The Cost of Lunch, Etc., brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal…
Here is a superb novel about the heroines at home during World War II, the women who sacrificed everything without firing a shot. And it is also the story of…
Originally published in the 1970, readers follow the lives of four teenagers in a near-future society, as they rebel against the military draft and ‘the system’. Brutal future fiction without…
A treasury of poetry celebrating the Jewish experience draws on the experiences of members of the author’s own family and deals with such themes as famous Jewish blessings, the holidays…
Miriam traded a doctorate for marriage and security, only to find herself hungry for a life of her own, but terrified of losing her husband. Beth ran away from her…
My Mother’s Body, Marge Piercy’s tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to…
Feeling left out in her family of ambitious achievers, Melissa Dickenson hopes to escape her mother’s relentless scrutiny when she enters college and falls in love with the son of…
A major new collection of poems about women’s lives and the closing circle of nature, from a bestselling poet. These poems celebrate the beauties of nature and the eternal cycle…
In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV…
This novel recreates the role that women played in the French Revolution. Intermingled with the lives of Robespierre and Danton are the stories of fictional characters and a city of…
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In a world ravaged by environmental disasters and divided up into corporate zones, a young Jewish woman returns to her home following the disintegration of her marriage and there is…
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In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman’s marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken…
Sleeping with Cats is the intimate memoir of acclaimed author and poet Marge Piercy whose bestselling novels include Woman on the Edge of Time, Body of Glass and Braided Lives…
First published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercys classic bookend to the sixties. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters and victories of an extraordinary band…
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Kerstin Westerlund-Shands
In Marge Piercy’s work, the repair of the world involves an affirmation of a healing and nurturing principle, sometimes depicted as matriarchal, but generally not gender-bound.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Marge Piercy’s To be of use, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Marge Piercy’s Barbie Doll, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Professor Marge Piercy
A woman’s neat, buttoned-up life starts to unravel after her daughter returns home, angry and unemployed, and her vital, working, and involved-with-life mother suffers a debilitating stroke.
Piercy re-creates a turbulent period in American history witnessed through the lives of its most notorious figures and explores the changing attitudes toward women, minorities, religion, and sexuality in 19th…
Ginger Huei-Chen Yang
A Study Guide for Marge Piercy’s Apple sauce for Eve, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Marge Piercy’s For the Young Who Want To, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
A Study Guide for Marge Piercy and Ira Wood’s The Last White Class , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
Professor Marge Piercy,Ira Wood
What fiction and memoir writers really need to know is outlined by a bestselling author and a publisher. Topics include how to begin a piece by seducing the reader, how…
Deborah Dewit Marchant
Hannah Senesh
A wonderful edition of a Jewish WWII heroine’s widely read and cherished diary, also including many of Hannah’s poems and letters, memoirs written by her mother and accounts by other…
