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My Mother's Body By Marge Piercy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piercy, Marge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother.
- Contents:
- What Remains
- They inhabit me
- The Annuity
- Waking one afternoon in my best dress
- Out of the rubbish
- Of pumpkins and ghosts I sing
- Unbuttoning
- The sun and the moon in the morning sky of Charlotte
- Putting the good things away
- The Crunch
- What remains
- My mother's body
- The Chuppah
- Witnessing a wedding
- Touch tones
- The place where everything changed
- What Makes It Good?
- Why marry at all?
- We Come Together
- Every leaf is a mouth
- The Wine
- How we make nice
- House-keeping
- Return of the prodigal darling
- Down
- House built of breath
- The infidelity of sleep
- Nailing up the mezuzah
- Chiaroscuro
- The good go down
- Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein
- Where is my half-used tube of Tom's fennel toothpaste tonight?
- Your cats are your children
- Mr. Big
- The maternal instinct at work
- Magic mama
- Nothing more will happen
- Blue Tuesday in August
- The Disinherited
- Cold head, cold heart
- Deferral
- Breaking out
- Paper birds
- Listening to a speech
- Making a will
- Still life
- From HoJo's to Mr. Softee
- The longings of women
- Out of sight
- Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?
- Underrated Pleasures
- Building is taming
- Cowering in a corner
- The Listmaker
- Going into town in the storm
- The clumsy season
- Silk confetti
- And whose creature am I?
- In praise of gazebos
- The Faithless
- If I had been called Sabrina or Ann, she said
- The night the moon got drunk
- Sweet ambush
- The high arch of summer
- What we fail to notice
- Tashlich
- This small and intimate place
- How grey, how wet, how cold
- Deer couchant
- Peaches in November
- Six underrated pleasures. Folding sheets
- Picking pole beans
- Taking a hot bath
- Sleeping with cats
- Planting bulbs
- Canning.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-76139-8
- OCLC:
- 1156099729
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