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Marge Piercy

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

"I will lift the leaden / coffin lid of the surface / and thrust my face / into the air." – Marge Piercy
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If They Come in the Night by Marge Piercy

“We all lose / everything. We lose / ourselves. We are lost.” – Marge Piercy
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To Have Without Holding by Marge Piercy

“to love and let / go again and again.” — Marge Piercy