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Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy
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Marge Piercy

Born: 31 March 1936

Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a working-class family that had been hard-hit by the Depression. An extremely prolific writer, Piercy has published close to 20 books of poetry and close to 20 novels. Piercy’s latest collections of poetry include The Crooked Inheritance (2006), The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010 (2011), and Made In Detroit (2015). (Source)

Poems by Marge Piercy

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What it costs by Marge Piercy

January 22, 2021
"While / the heart kicks / like a strangled rabbit / and the lungs buckle / like poor balloons: / I will survive."
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If They Come in the Night by Marge Piercy

May 24, 2012
I am changing. I don’t know when it happened. I was out walking the other day, my mind blank, my fingers worrying a thread that has unraveled at the waist of my jeans, and I felt it: that shifting. It […]
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To Have Without Holding by Marge Piercy

October 21, 2005
“to love and let / go again and again.” — Marge Piercy