Background
Marge Piercy was born on March 31, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She is a daughter of Robert Douglas and Bert Bernice Piercy.
Mackenzie High School, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Marge Piercy graduated from Mackenzie High School.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
In 1957 Marge Piercy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
In 1958 Marge Piercy obtained a Master of Arts degree from Northwestern University.
(A local university plans to bulldoze and replace parts of...)
A local university plans to bulldoze and replace parts of a predominantly African American Chicago slum with student housing. But for those who live there, the affordable if run-down homes are havens for creativity and self-exploration, and a setting for developing meaningful relationships. Among the residents are Anna, a teacher; her lover, Rowley, a soul singer; and their friends, documentary filmmaker Leon and the beautiful yet mysterious Caroline. The university may have more money and political clout, but these determined young people aren’t willing to let the wrecking ball tear through their world without a fight. Their relationships are strained and their convictions are tested as secrets are uncovered and they battle with a changing economic climate that jeopardizes their very way of life. The city has turned its back on them, and they have nothing left to lose.
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Down-Fast-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B01C54MMPY/?tag=2022091-20
1969
(The civil rights, antiwar and women's movements reflected...)
The civil rights, antiwar and women's movements reflected in these deeply personal poems filled with fire, anger and compassion which Piercy expresses so well. These poems are tough and tender, gritty with the urban landscape yet alive with reverence for the earth, enraged at the violence and injustices of man yet hopeful at the prospect of true community. Her second collection of poetry is about hard loving and hard living in a time of turmoil and optimism.
https://www.amazon.com/Hard-loving-Poems-Marge-Piercy/dp/0819510467
1969
(Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy’s second novel...)
Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy’s second novel follows the lives of four teenagers in a near-future society as they rebel against a military draft and 'the system." The occupation of Franklin High School begins, and with it, the open rebellion of America’s youth against their channeled, unrewarding lives and the self-serving, plastic society that directs them. From the disillusionment and alienation of the young at the center of the revolt to their attempts to build a visionary new society, the nationwide following they gain, and the brutally complete repression that inevitably follows, this is a future fiction without a drop of fantasy. As driving, violent, and nuanced today as it was 40 years ago, this anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author reflecting unapologetically on the novel and the times from which it emerged.
https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Eagle-Sleep-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B008CID1A8/?tag=2022091-20
1970
(Growing up, Beth always dreamed of her wedding day. But a...)
Growing up, Beth always dreamed of her wedding day. But a few months into her marriage to Jim, whose affection she once clung to desperately, she realizes she didn’t anticipate life beyond the altar. Jim spends his nights out drinking with his buddies and criticizes every meal Beth cooks, and the only solution her family suggests is to have a baby - which she knows would trap her in this miserable life forever. So she takes matters into her own hands and flees to Boston. There she meets Miriam, an ambitious computer science PhD candidate who nonetheless gives up her career for an unfulfilling marriage. Alongside a cast of intellectuals, budding feminists, and political activists, Beth and Miriam find themselves rapidly evolving as they are swept up in the tumultuous social upheaval of the sixties. Experimenting with relationships and sexuality, and taking a stand for women’s rights and against the Vietnam War, they learn to trust their instincts and lean on each other.
https://www.amazon.com/Small-Changes-Novel-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B01C54MMUO/?tag=2022091-20
1973
(Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the st...)
Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity - and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow.
https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Edge-Time-Marge-Piercy/dp/044900094X/?tag=2022091-20
1976
(Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another w...)
Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Leslie, a history grad student, follows her thesis advisor from Grand Rapids to Detroit for a fresh start. There she befriends seventeen-year-old Honor, who sparks a familiar passion within her. Feeling that she can’t act on her desire, she sleeps with Honor’s older friend, Bernard, a gay former street hustler who resents his past and, to make matters more complicated, also lusts for Honor. As the three grapple with issues of sexuality and identity, author Marge Piercy manages to be both intimately attuned to her characters’ emotions and aware of their role in a larger social and economic context. Leslie, Honor, and Bernard struggle financially in a city that doesn’t offer many opportunities, and they discover that expressing their sexuality and finding love may be privileges they cannot afford.
https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Living-Novel-ebook/dp/B01C54MK3I/?tag=2022091-20
1978
(This is a record in verse of one year integrates the poli...)
This is a record in verse of one year integrates the political, intellectual, and emotional aspects of the poet's experiences.
https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Spoked-Wheel-Flashing-Poems-Piercy/dp/0394424387/?tag=2022091-20
1978
(Originally published in 1979, this piece of revolutionary...)
Originally published in 1979, this piece of revolutionary fiction is a bestselling author’s classic paean to the 1960s. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch, who has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 1960s she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement—a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of Life magazine—charismatic, passionate, and totally sure she would prevail. Now, a decade later, Vida is on the run, her star-quality replaced by stubborn courage. As counterpoint to the underground 1970s, Marge Piercy tells the extraordinary tale of the optimistic era, the thousands of people who were members of Students Against the War, and of the handful who formed a fierce group called the Little Red Wagon. Piercy’s characters make vivid and comprehensible the desperation, the courage, and the blind rage of a time when action could appear to some to be a more rational choice than the vote.
https://www.amazon.com/Vida-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B006FM9544/?tag=2022091-20
1979
(Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st ...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Always-Female-Marge-Piercy/dp/0394738594/?tag=2022091-20
1980
(Growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, and going to college ...)
Growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, and going to college when the first seeds of sexual freedom are being sown, Jill and Donna are coming of age in an exciting, turbulent time. Wry, independent Jill thrives in the new free-spirited world, while her beautiful cousin Donna desperately searches for a man to make her life whole. As each cousin is driven by different demons and desires, they eventually realize that they cannot overcome fundamental differences in each others' lives. Still, as their futures assume contrary paths, Jill and Donna realize that they may be separated, but they'll never be truly divided from one another.
https://www.amazon.com/Braided-Lives-Marge-Piercy/dp/0449000915
1982
(After a cross-country tour promoting her latest cookbook,...)
After a cross-country tour promoting her latest cookbook, Daria Walker is ready to return to her beautiful home in an affluent Boston suburb and her beloved husband, Ross, a prominent attorney whose rough-hewn good looks have never stopped charming her. But when she arrives, he blindsides her by announcing he wants a divorce. Surprised and devastated, Daria suspects he may be having an affair, but the reality is far worse and will tear apart the illusion of her perfectly happy family. When a boy dies tragically and a scandal erupts involving a mercenary slumlord, Daria is outraged along with the rest of the city. But when she learns that Ross may have a connection to the case, she sets out on a journey to discover the truth - a quest that will cast a shadow over the comfortable life she once enjoyed.
https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Away-Home-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B01C54MKTM/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, ta...)
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 her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother/daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification.
https://www.amazon.com/My-Mothers-Body-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B00E7328KG/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(Epic in scope, Marge Piercy’s sweeping novel encompasses ...)
Epic in scope, Marge Piercy’s sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people and places marked by the Second World War. Each of her ten narrators has a unique and compelling story that powerfully depicts his or her personality, desires, and fears. Special attention is given to the women of the war effort, like Bernice, who rebels against her domineering father to become a fighter pilot, and Naomi, a Parisian Jew sent to live with relatives in Detroit, whose twin sister, Jacqueline - still in France - joins the resistance against Nazi rule.
https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Soldiers-Novel-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B01C54MM2M/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(Pierce's most compelling book of poems expresses the deli...)
Pierce's most compelling book of poems expresses the delights of the senses and the hard play of emotion. They celebrate the wonders of nature and explore the nature of love and friendship.
https://www.amazon.com/Available-Light-Marge-Piercy/dp/039456474X/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(This book gathers poems by Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, M...)
This book gathers poems by Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, May Sarton, Margaret Randall, Audre Lorde, and Diane di Prima.
https://www.amazon.com/Early-Ripening-American-Womens-Poetry/dp/0863581080/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(For more than a decade, Dinah, Susan, and Susan’s husband...)
For more than a decade, Dinah, Susan, and Susan’s husband, Willie - artists and neighbors in a small Cape Cod town - have enjoyed an unconventional, but deeply satisfying, three-way relationship. When the annual summer crowd flocks to the Cape, Dinah misses her quiet afternoons composing music in the woods, and Willie, a sculptor, puts aside his own work to do carpentry jobs on lavish vacation homes. Susan, though, envies the glamorous lives of the summer residents. And one visitor, Tyrone Burdock, a wealthy and seductive financier, offers her an enticing glimpse into his world that may jolt the foundation of her ménage à trois.
https://www.amazon.com/Summer-People-Novel-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B01C54MM9A/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we kno...)
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 from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions - and the ability to kill...
https://www.amazon.com/He-She-Novel-Marge-Piercy/dp/0449220605/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(A major new collection of poems about women's lives and t...)
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 of love, death and birth that is being interrupted by the assault on the environment.
https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Her-Children-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B00E2RXIF6/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(When her best friend’s death rattles her sense of complac...)
When her best friend’s death rattles her sense of complacency, college professor Leila Landsman decides she’s finally had enough of her cheating husband. Leila throws herself into her work and encounters Becky Burgess, a local woman who climbed her way out of poverty but whose success is completely halted when she becomes the prime suspect in her husband’s murder. Meanwhile, Leila’s housekeeper, Mary Burke, is no stranger to failed marriage. Abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, and unable to support herself on her own income alone, Mary now secretly sleeps in her clients’ houses, hiding her homelessness to remain employed and survive.
https://www.amazon.com/Longings-Women-Novel-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B01C54MK3S/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of ei...)
For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of eighteenth-century France, the lofty ideals of the coming revolution could not seem more abstract. But when Claire sees the gaping disparity between the poverty she has known and the lavish lives of aristocrats as her theater group performs in their homes, and Pauline witnesses the execution of local bread riot leaders, both are driven to join the uprising. They, along with upper-class women like Madame Manon Roland, who ghostwrites speeches for her politician husband and runs a Parisian salon where revolutionaries gather, will play critical roles in the French people’s bloody battle for liberty and equality.
https://www.amazon.com/City-Darkness-Light-Novel-ebook/dp/B01C54ML9G/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-dis...)
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 poems about women and poems about the precarious balance of nature, ending with the beautiful, life-affirming "The Art of Blessing the Day."
https://www.amazon.com/What-Are-Big-Girls-Made/dp/0679450653/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(When Cape Cod high school star pitcher David Greene left ...)
When Cape Cod high school star pitcher David Greene left home, everyone in his small beach town rallied behind his dream of making it in the pros. No one expected the local legend to return broke a few years later, with an undistinguished minor league record and a painful divorce behind him. As he tries to rebuild his life, David begins an affair with Judith Silver - one that her much older, terminally ill husband, Gordon, condones on the condition that David run for a seat on the town’s board of selectman against Gordon’s political rival. Set in a lushly drawn seaside resort town, this thrilling novel pushes its complicated and fascinating characters to extremes of emotion. Driven by passion and a lust for power, David, Judith, and Gordon are all guilty of seduction and manipulation that will result in irrevocable consequences. As David’s romantic and political involvements escalate at a fever pitch, a forceful storm rolls in off the ocean, leading up to a tumultuous climax.
https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Tide-Novel-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B01C54MKWE/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equ...)
Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approved of her choices, has been felled by age and illness. And, for the first time in her life, she needs Suzanne's help. Intertwining the lives of three generations of contemporary women, master storyteller Marge Piercy plunges into the deepest, most elemental basics of life - love, aging, illness, and death - and emerges with a brave, compassionate exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Women-Novel-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B00ADQK9ES/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(The 'Grrrl' phenomenon is a contemporary expression of yo...)
The 'Grrrl' phenomenon is a contemporary expression of young women's humor and rage exploding in books and zines, concerts, films, and the internet. In homage to a new generation of tough young feminists, Marge Piercy presents a gathering of poems that reveal the poet as an early 'Grrrl.' Comprising over ninety poems selected from four books now out of print; poems previously published in literary magazines but never before collected and very early poems never published, this volume presents the bold and passionate political verse for which Piercy is well known alongside poems celebrating the sensual pleasures of gardening and cooking and sex; funny poems about New Year's Eve and warring boom boxes; vulnerable poems in which a young working class woman from the Midwest takes stock of herself and the limits of her world. For longtime fans and those new to Piercy's early work, this volume is an indispensable addition to the oeuvre of one of America's best-known and best-selling poets.
https://www.amazon.com/Early-Grrrl-Poems-Marge-Piercy/dp/0965457869/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems ...)
About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce and emotional, with their intense ambivalence, pain and joy, themes of separation and reconnecting, are among the very strongest about that difficult relationship."
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Blessing-Day-Poems-Jewish/dp/0375704310/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(For over ten years, Marge Piercy and Ira Wood have been t...)
For over ten years, Marge Piercy and Ira Wood have been teaching two popular master classes in the art of writing fiction and memoirs. They attract students nationwide who have failed to improve their work in courses concentrating on process' rather than craft, and want to go beyond :journaling" and "writing as therapy" to break through and publish their work.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Write-Marge-Piercy/dp/0967952026/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a po...)
Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed - her beloved cats. With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, Sleeping With Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself. A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, Sleeping With Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story.
https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Cats-Memoir-Marge-Piercy/dp/0060936045/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shad...)
Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, Melissa is the third child in the politically prominent Dickenson family, where ambition comes first and Melissa often comes last. In college, she meets Blake, a man of mixed race and apparently unknown parentage. His adoptive parents are lawyers whose defense of death-row cases in the past brought them head-to-head with Melissa's father when he was the governor of Pennsylvania. While Melissa and Blake's attraction is immediate and fiery, a dangerous secret lurks beneath their relationship -- one that could destroy them ... and their families. Provocative and beautifully written, and dealing with themes of love, honesty, identity, and the consequences of ambition, The Third Child is a remarkable page-turner.
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Child-Novel-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B000Z4JQPQ/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the heig...)
In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. Feisty and funny as always, she turns a sharp eye on the world around her, bidding an ex-hausted farewell to the twentieth century and singing an "electronic breakdown blues" for the twenty-first.
https://www.amazon.com/Colors-Passing-Through-Marge-Piercy/dp/0375710051/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the A...)
Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison - as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; and Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, whose censorship laws are still on the books.
https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Wars-Novel-Gilded-York/dp/0060789875/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(This is a collection of poems from one of our best-loved ...)
This is a collection of poems from one of our best-loved and best-selling poets that is both personal, with poetry about love, nature and reflections on the stages of life, and political, ranging from the war in Iraq and Katrina to concerns such as women’s rights and the poet’s childhood in Detroit.
https://www.amazon.com/Crooked-Inheritance-Poems-Marge-Piercy-ebook/dp/B00E7328FQ/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her ow...)
Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in tweaking each spring to make it more meaningful. In this journey through the ritual, Piercy coaxes us toward “a significant contemporary interpretation, rather than an emphasis on what is strictly ‘correct’ or traditional.” She reminisces about her grandmother, who thought herself unworthy to lead a seder because of her limited Hebrew but presided “morally” at the table; she urges adding an orange to the seder plate; she even describes her heroic efforts to make her own gefilte fish (an experiment not to be repeated). Piercy offers her distinct slant on each element of the feast and provides dozens of her own wonderful recipes, which she delivers in the same warm, commanding voice as is heard in her poems and prose: “When I told Ira that I was going to explain how to cook matzoh brei, he thought I was crazy. Everybody knows how to make matzoh brei, he said. But I am of the opinion that there is no longer anything that everybody knows how to cook.” It is in that spirit–no question too simple–that Piercy welcomes readers to her kind of seder: a homemade and personal affair, the kind we all wish we could attend. This charming and instructive book of Passover wisdom, brimming with favorite dishes and Marge Piercy’s own moving Passover poems and blessings, invites us to look at an important Jewish ritual in a whole new way.
https://www.amazon.com/Pesach-Rest-Us-Making-Passover/dp/0805242422/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems - energetic, f...)
This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems - energetic, funny, political, full of vitality - brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982.
https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Moon-Selected-Poems-1980-2010/dp/0307594106/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(In this collection of short stories, bestselling author M...)
In this collection of short stories, bestselling author Marge Piercy brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds. Keeping to the engaging, accessible language of Piercy’s novels, the collection spans decades of her writing along with a range of locations, ages, and emotional states of her protagonists. From the first-person account of hoarding and a girl’s narrative of sexual and spiritual discovery to the recounting of a past love affair, each story is a tangible, vivid snapshot in a varied and subtly curated gallery of work. Whether grappling with death, familial relationships, friendship, sex, illness, or religion, Piercy’s writing is as passionate, lucid, insightful, and thoughtfully alive as ever.
https://www.amazon.com/Cost-Lunch-Etc-Short-Stories-ebook/dp/B00IC8UHGY/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(A treasure trove of new poems by one of our most sought-a...)
A treasure trove of new poems by one of our most sought-after poets: poems that range from descriptions of the Detroit of her childhood to her current life on Cape Cod, from deep appreciations of the natural world to elegies for lost friends and relationships, from a vision of her Jewish heritage to a hard-hitting take on today’s political ironies.
https://www.amazon.com/Made-Detroit-Poems-Marge-Piercy/dp/038535388X/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems,...)
In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railerries, Marge Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego dances of a writer’s life, the homeless and the housewife, Allen Ginsberg and Marilyn Monroe, feminist utopias (and why she doesn’t live in one), why fiction isn’t physics; and of course, fame, sex, and money, not necessarily in that order. The short essays, poems, and personal memoirs intermingle like shards of glass that shine, reflect - and cut. Always personal yet always political, Piercy’s work is drawn from a deep well of feminist and political activism. Also featured is an Outspoken Interview, in which the author lays out her personal rules for living on Cape Cod, caring for cats, and making marriage work.
https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Body-Outspoken-Authors/dp/1629631051/?tag=2022091-20
2015
Marge Piercy was born on March 31, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She is a daughter of Robert Douglas and Bert Bernice Piercy.
Marge Piercy graduated from Mackenzie High School. In 1957 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. In 1958 Percy obtained a Master of Arts degree from Northwestern University.
From 1960 to 1962 Marge Piercy was an instructor at Indiana University, Gary. In 1971 she was a poet-in-residence at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. In 1975, 1978, and 1980 Piercy was a distinguished visiting lecturer at Grand Valley State College (now Grand Valley State University). From 1976 to 1977 she was a staff member at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
In 1977 she was Butler Chair of Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1985 Piercy was a fiction writer-in-residence at Ohio State University, Columbus, and at the University of Cincinnati in 1986. In 1992 she was DeRoy distinguished visiting professor at the University of Michigan. In 2000 Marge was a resident poet at the Center for the Book in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
(In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems,...)
2015(A treasure trove of new poems by one of our most sought-a...)
2015(Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-dis...)
1997(This is a collection of poems from one of our best-loved ...)
2006(After a cross-country tour promoting her latest cookbook,...)
1985(In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the heig...)
2003(Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shad...)
2003(In this collection of short stories, bestselling author M...)
2014(For more than a decade, Dinah, Susan, and Susan’s husband...)
1989(This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems - energetic, f...)
2011(Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a po...)
2002(My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, ta...)
1985(Growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, and going to college ...)
1982(Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy’s second novel...)
1970(About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems ...)
1999(Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another w...)
1978(The civil rights, antiwar and women's movements reflected...)
1969(When her best friend’s death rattles her sense of complac...)
1994(For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of ei...)
1996(The 'Grrrl' phenomenon is a contemporary expression of yo...)
1999(When Cape Cod high school star pitcher David Greene left ...)
1998(For over ten years, Marge Piercy and Ira Wood have been t...)
2001(This is a record in verse of one year integrates the poli...)
1978(A local university plans to bulldoze and replace parts of...)
1969(Epic in scope, Marge Piercy’s sweeping novel encompasses ...)
1987(Poems describe the breakup of a relationship, grief, marr...)
1983(Originally published in 1979, this piece of revolutionary...)
1979(This book gathers poems by Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, M...)
1988(A major new collection of poems about women's lives and t...)
1992(Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her ow...)
2007(Marge Piercy proves that modern poetry can be both passio...)
1973(Pierce's most compelling book of poems expresses the deli...)
1988(In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we kno...)
1991(Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the st...)
1976(Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the A...)
2005(Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equ...)
1999(Marge Piercy writes of women and poetry and of woman beco...)
1982(Growing up, Beth always dreamed of her wedding day. But a...)
1973(Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st ...)
1980(This is a play about neighborhood terror.)
1979(This is a collection of poetry.)
1968(This is a collection of poetry.)
1971(This is a collection of poetry.)
1976(This is a collection of poetry.)
1982Marge Piercy was a significant feminist voice in the New Left and Students for a Democratic Society (1965 - 1969).
In 1977, Marge Piercy became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). This organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. WIFP operates as both a national and international feminist network.
Quotations:
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."
"We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways."
"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
"We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us."
Marge Piercy is a member of the PEN, the National Organization for Women, the Authors Guild, the Authors League, the National Writers Union, the Poetry Society of America, the National Audubon Society, Massachusetts Audubon Society, New England Poetry Club.
In 1958 Marge Piercy married Michel Schiff, a physicist. In 1959 they divorced. In 1962 she married Robert Shapiro, a computer scientist. In 1980 they divorced. On June 2, 1982 Marge married Ira Wood, a writer and publisher.