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Colors passing through us : poems / by Marge Piercy.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piercy, Marge.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry, Modern--20th century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Poetry--Women authors.
- Poetry.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 157 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
- Contents:
- Photograph of my mother sitting on the steps
- In the attic of dreams
- One reason I like opera
- The good old days at home sweet home
- Her body inscribes
- Lost
- The glamour of it
- My mother gives me her recipe
- The day my mother died
- Too long dead
- Long night of the incomplete
- Jolly woman with birds
- Still the desert
- In the department store
- Love has certain limited powers
- After the darkness
- Chrysanthemum season
- Hunting the hunter
- The clock in the closet
- No one came home
- The true patriot
- Dirty old century: 12-31-99
- Got the 21st century blues
- Resort offseason
- Minor losses
- The disintegration
- Finest porcelain
- Family values
- Gifts that keep on giving
- Kamasutra for dummies
- He left but can't let go
- Not in the dark
- How it was with us, dear grandchildren; Winter promises
- Where beach umbellas spread gaudy circles
- Take it as it comes
- The gardener's litany
- Eclipse at the solstice
- A kind of theft
- The rain as wine
- The corner
- Taconic at midnight
- The equinox rush
- After the loss
- The aria
- Leonids over us
- Little lights
- Seder with comet
- Quieting by the bay
- Sometimes while I am chanting
- Time of year
- Sins of omission
- Shadows on darkness
- Tapuz: an orange
- The cameo
- Miriam's cup
- Colors passing through us
- The grammatical difference between lay and lie
- Love's clay
- Old moon cradling the new moon
- Chilled through
- The first time I tasted you
- Black leaves
- The animal kingdom
- How it goes with us
- Black taffeta
- Firebird
- Worlds without end; Rising in perilous hope
- Burnishing memory
- The new era, c. 1946
- The yellow light
- Frozen as far as the eye can see
- Flying over the Nebraska of my life
- Roomers, rumors
- Borrowed lives
- Mexico City, 1968, summer
- Photo instead of friend
- Dignity
- The garden of almost
- On the water, reflecting herself
- I awake feathered
- The joys of a bad reputation
- Old cat crying
- The lower crust
- Traveling dream
- A conversation with memory
- Tasting evanescence
- As the way narrows.
- ISBN:
- 0375710051
- 9780375710056
- OCLC:
- 56780673
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