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Piercy's 15th collection of poetry starts in the mid-1970s and works backwards, beginning with excerpts from out-of-print works and ending with juvenilia and a section of previously uncollected work written over the last quarter-century. The "nudge" ("Song of the Nudge") is a familiar presence here, for this writer likes to fly in the face of restraint, decorum, and subtlety. When asked to have patience, she replies, in "Ask Me for Anything Else," "I am empty with wanting,/ not like a box/ but like a tiger's belly." Her poems acknowledge two types of readers: one presumably male, who while loving, opposes and resists her ravenous appetites; the other female, the women "retelling/ agonies like amber worry beads." In her introduction, Piercy claims to be a source of inspiration to young writers she admires?the "grrrls" of web-based feminism?and she even has her own web page. This selection may not include her strongest work, but will be important to those who follow her closely.?Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 1999
Early Grrrl shows the skeptical eye how poets are born. This collection has many delights for Piercy fans . . . This is an important book. Many poems here are unpublished elsewhere. Many are indispensable works from one of America's most important poets.
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Piercy's 15th collection of poetry starts in the mid-1970s and works backwards, beginning with excerpts from out-of-print works and ending with juvenilia and a section of previously uncollected work written over the last quarter-century. The "nudge" ("Song of the Nudge") is a familiar presence here, for this writer likes to fly in the face of restraint, decorum, and subtlety. When asked to have patience, she replies, in "Ask Me for Anything Else," "I am empty with wanting,/ not like a box/ but like a tiger's belly." Her poems acknowledge two types of readers: one presumably male, who while loving, opposes and resists her ravenous appetites; the other female, the women "retelling/ agonies like amber worry beads." In her introduction, Piercy claims to be a source of inspiration to young writers she admires?the "grrrls" of web-based feminism?and she even has her own web page. This selection may not include her strongest work, but will be important to those who follow her closely.?Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 1999
Early Grrrl shows the skeptical eye how poets are born. This collection has many delights for Piercy fans . . . This is an important book. Many poems here are unpublished elsewhere. Many are indispensable works from one of America's most important poets.
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- Storm Tide by Marge Piercy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- He, She and It by Marge Piercy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Moon Is Always Female by Marge Piercy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Braided Lives by Marge Piercy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Mars and Her Children: Poems by Marge Piercy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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