The Greater Grand Rapids lover 1975
The Lansing bad penny come again blues 1975
The poet dreams of a nice warm motel 1976
Skimpy day at the solstice 1974
The market economy 1977
The love of lettuce 1977
Martha as the angel Gabriel 1976
Snow in May 1976
The window of the woman burning 1975
Going in 1975
Athena in the front lines 1962–75
The root canal 1976
Doors in the wind and the water 1976
You ask why sometimes I say stop 1977
Smalley Bar 1977
In the wet 1977
Crows 1975
If they come in the night 1977
At the core 1975
Beauty I would suffer for 1976
A gift of light 1977
From THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE
The inside chance 1979
Night flight 1978
Excursions, incursions 1978
Apologies 1968
The long death 1979
The cast off 1977
Rainy 4th 1979
Intruding 1978
September afternoon at four o’clock 1978
Morning athletes 1977
Cats like angels 1978
For strong women 1977
For the young who want to 1979
Hand games 1979
Right to life 1979
Shadows of the burning 1979
The sabbath of mutual respect 1979
The perpetual migration 1978
The longest night 1979
Crescent moon like a canoe 1978
SEVEN NEW POEMS
What’s that smell in the kitchen? 1980
Wind is the wall of the year 1980
Laocoön is the name of the figure 1979
Snow, snow 1981
Digging in 1981
Let us gather at the river 1980
A note about the author
Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, including Circles on the Water, a selection from her early works. Among her more recent volumes: The Crooked Inheritance; Colors Passing Through Us; The Art of Blessing the Day; What Are Big Girls Made Of?; Mars and Her Children; Available Light; My Mother’s Body; and Stone, Paper, Knife. In 1990 her poetry won the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She is also the author of a memoir, Sleeping with Cats, and seventeen novels, the most recent being Sex Wars. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist and publisher of Leap Frog Press, with whom she has written a play, a novel, and most recently the second edition of So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and Personal Narrative.
Marge Piercy’s website address is www.margepiercy.com.