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Circles On the Water : Selected Poems Of Marge Piercy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piercy, Marge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Women poets, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
- Summary:
- More than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- From Breaking Camp
- Kneeling at the pipes
- Visiting a dead man on a summer day
- Girl in white
- Noon of the sunbather
- A valley where I don't belong
- S. dead
- Hallow Eve with spaces for ghosts
- Landed fish
- A few ashes for Sunday morning
- Concerning the mathematician
- Postcard from the garden
- The cats of Greece
- Sign
- A married walk in a hot place
- The Peaceable Kingdom
- Gasman invites the skyscrapers to dance
- The skyscrapers of the financial district dance with Gasman
- Breaking camp
- From Hard Loving
- Walking into love
- Community
- The neighbor
- The friend
- The morning half-life blues
- Erasure
- The cyclist
- Juan's twilight dance
- Learning experience
- Half past home
- Simple-song
- For Jeriann's hands
- I am a light you could read by
- Crabs
- Trajectory of the traveling Susan
- The butt of winter
- Bronchitis on the 14th floor
- The death of the small commune
- The track of the master builder
- Why the soup tastes like the Daily News
- Curse of the earth magician on a metal land
- From 4-Telling
- Letter to be disguised as a gas bill
- Sojourners
- Under the grind
- Somehow
- Never-never
- Ache's end
- From to Be of Use
- A work of artifice
- What you waited for
- The secretary chant
- Night letter
- In the men's room(s)
- The nuisance
- I will not be your sickness
- The thrifty lover
- A shadow play for guilt
- Song of the fucked duck
- A just anger
- The crippling
- Right thinking man
- Barbie doll
- Hello up there
- High frequency
- The woman in the ordinary
- Unlearning to not speak
- Women's laughter
- Burying blues for Janis
- The best defense is offensive
- Icon
- Some collisions bring luck
- We become new
- Meetings like hungry beaks.
- To be of use
- Bridging
- Doing it differently
- The spring offensive of the snail
- Councils
- Laying down the tower (Introduction)
- The queen of pentacles
- The overturning of the tower
- The nine of cups
- The knight of swords
- The eight of swords
- The seven of pentacles
- The magician
- The three of cups
- The emperor
- The judgment
- The sun
- From Living in the Open
- Living in the open
- I awoke with the room cold
- Gracious goodness
- Homesick
- Seedlings in the mail
- The daily life of the worker bee
- Cod summer
- A proposal for recycling wastes
- The bumpity road to mutual devotion
- On Castle Hill
- From Sand Roads
- 7. The Development
- 8. The Road Behind the Last Dune
- Rough times
- Phyllis wounded
- Rape poem
- The consumer
- The provocation of the dream
- Looking at quilts
- To the pay toilet
- All clear
- Unclench yourself
- The homely war
- From the Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing
- The twelve-spoked wheel flashing
- What the owl sees
- The Greater Grand Rapids lover
- The Lansing bad penny come again blues
- The poet dreams of a nice warm motel
- Skimpy day at the solstice
- The market economy
- The love of lettuce
- Martha as the angel Gabriel
- Snow in May
- The window of the woman burning
- Going in
- Athena in the front lines
- The root canal
- Doors in the wind and the water
- You ask why sometimes I say stop
- Smalley Bar
- For Shoshana Rihn-Pat Swinton
- In the wet
- Crows
- If they come in the night
- At the core
- Beauty I would suffer for
- A gift of light
- From The Moon is Always Female
- The inside chance
- Night flight
- Excursions, incursions
- Apologies
- The long death
- The cast off
- Rainy 4th
- Attack of the squash people
- Intruding
- September afternoon at four o'clock
- Morning athletes
- Cats like angels
- For strong women.
- For the young who want to
- Hand games
- Right to life
- Shadows of the burning
- The sabbath of mutual respect
- The perpetual migration
- The longest night
- Crescent moon like a canoe
- Seven New Poems
- It breaks
- What's that smell in the kitchen?
- Wind is the wall of the year
- Laocoön is the name of the figure
- Snow, snow
- Digging in
- Let us gather at the river
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-76219-X
- OCLC:
- 1156115904
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