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Mars and Her Children: Poems By Marge Piercy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piercy, Marge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- Women poets, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
- Summary:
- A selection of poems by the novelist, poet, and essayist deal with the approaching end of the century and the pleasures and problems of modern life.
- Contents:
- Fox Grapes
- Softly during the night
- Bell song
- Thinking of Homer at twilight
- The seduction of anticipated pain
- Waking with my ears ringing
- What crosses over
- Report of the Gourteenth Subcommittee on Convening a Discussion Group
- Do not erect the wall before yourselves
- Of the patience called forth by transition
- Dreaming the frog's sleep
- At the new moon: Rosh Hodesh
- Apple sauce for Eve
- Runt vigor
- Core memory
- Dream of white and red poppies
- Blood lake
- Cousin, Cousine
- Like little firecrackers in the brain
- Your father's fourth heart attack
- Cast skins
- Up and out
- The ex in the supermarket
- True romance
- Yearning to repossess the body
- Peeled after flu
- A line of dancers through time
- Heel should not be an insult
- Old shoes
- It ain't heavy, it's my purse.
- In June all things wake fully
- Detroit, summer camp
- Hot, hotter
- The possession
- Persimmon pudding
- Shad blow
- Bite into the onion
- Toward a sudden silence
- The heart's clock
- The truth accorking to Ludd
- Getting it back
- Domestic danger 00 When too much is barely enough
- Frog song
- Yellow, red, blue
- Woman in the bushes
- Blizzard comes
- A newly sharpened wind
- For each age, its amulet
- Returning to the cemetery in the old Prague ghetto
- I have always been poor at flirting
- The diminishing addition
- Practicing with the windows open
- Little Pishna revisited 00 Teaching experience
- For she is a tree of life
- Subtle commands of the earth
- The 31st of March
- It arrives suddenly and carries us off a.
- Why I bought the stupid palm tree dish
- A garden of words
- The Book of Ruth and Naomi
- Underwater breathing
- Detroint means strait
- Your eyes recall old fantasies
- Wet == Three a.m. feeding
- Anxiety wins a round
- We speak of seeing the heron, as if there were only one
- The wind changes
- The pain came back like something sharp in my eye
- The whale we are
- For Mars and her children returning in March
- The cat's song
- How the full moon wakes you
- The hunger moon
- Shabbat moment
- Amidah: on our feet we speak to you
- Feeling quite temporary
- Sexual selection among birds
- Imaging
- The price of the body
- The task never completed.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-76126-6
- OCLC:
- 1156107119
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