Made in Detroit : poems / Marge Piercy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piercy, Marge, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 173 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Contents:

I Made in Detroit

Made in Detroit 3

The frontroom 4

Detroit, February 1943 5

Things that will never happen here again 6

Detroit fauna 7

Family vacation to Yellowstone 9

The rented lakes of my childhood 11

Thirteen 13

She held forth 14

The scent of apple cake 16

By the river of Detroit 18

The street that was 20

City bleeding 21

Mehitabel & me 23

What my mother gave me 25

Our neverending entanglement 27

Ashes in their places 29

II Ignorance biggerthan the moon

January orders 33

We have come through 35

How I gained respect for night herons 36

Remnants still visible 38

The constant exchange 40

May opens wide 42

Wisteria can pull down a house 43

June 15th, 8 p.m. 44

Hard rain and potent thunder 45

Ignorance bigger than the moon 46

Little house with no door 48

There were no mountains in Detroit [haibun] 50

But soon there will be none 51

Missing, missed 53

Death's charming face 54

The frost moon 55

December arrives like an unpaid bill 56

III The poor are no longer with us

The suicide of dolphins 61

The poor are no longer with us 63

Don't send dead flowers 65

A hundred years since the Triangle Fire 67

Ethics for Republicans 69

Another obituary 70

What it means 71

How have the mighty... 73

We know 74

The passion of a fan 76

In pieces 78

Ghosts 80

One of the expendables 82

Let's meet in a restaurant 84

My time in better dresses 85

Come fly without me 86

These bills are long unpaid 87

Hope is a long, slow thing 89

IV Working at it

The late year 93

Erev New Years 95

Head of the year 96

May the new year continue our Joy 97

Late that afternoon they come 98

N'eilah 99

The wall of cold descends 101

How she learned 103

Working at it 105

The order of the seder 106

The two cities 107

Where silence waits 109

I say Kaddish but still mourn 110

V That was Cobb Farm

Little diurnal tragedies 115

The next evolutionary step 117

That was Cobb farm 118

They meet 120

A cigarette left smoldering 121

Discovery motion 122

Sun in January 123

Little rabbit's dream song 124

Different voices, one sentence 125

Cotton's wife 126

Thai summer day 127

Insomniac prayer at 2 a.m. 128

The body in the hot tub 129

VI Looking back in utter confusion

Looking back in utter confusion 133

Why did the palace of excess have cockroaches? 135

In the Peloponnesus one April afternoon 136

The end not yet in sight 137

Loving clandestinely 139

The visible and the in- 140

What's left 142

Corner of Putnam and Pearl 143

Bang, crash over 145

Sins of omission 146

Even if we try not to let go 148

Afterward 149

The wonder of it 150

Marinade for an elderly rabbit 151

Contemplating my breasts 152

Words ha rd as stones 153

Absence wears out the heart 154

A republic of cats 155

What do they expect? 156

Decades of intimacy creating 158

We used to be close, I said 159

A wind suddenly chills you 160

Why s he frightens me 161

My sweetness, my desire 163

They come, they go in the space of a breath 164

In storms I can hear the surf a mile away 166.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book."

ISBN:

9780385353885

038535388X

OCLC:

882906803