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Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, including Circles on the Water, a selection from her early works. In 1990 her poetry won the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She is also the author of a memoir, Sleeping with Cats, and seventeen novels, the most recent being Sex Wars. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into nineteen languages. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist and public radio interviewer, with whom she has written a play, a novel, and most recently the second edition of So You Want...
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The Art of Blessing the Day
Poems with a Jewish Theme
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $18.00
Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize
About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce... Read more >
Poems with a Jewish Theme
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $18.00
Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize
About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce... Read more >
Circles on the Water
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 12, 1982
Price: $22.50
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Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 12, 1982
Price: $22.50
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City of Darkness, City of Light
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $12.99
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Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $12.99
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City of Darkness, City of Light
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 12, 1997
Price: $23.00
"FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION."
--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life, three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts... Read more >
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 12, 1997
Price: $23.00
"FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION."
--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life, three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts... Read more >
Colors Passing Through Us
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $15.00
In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. Feisty and funny as always, she turns a sharp eye on the world... Read more >
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $15.00
In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. Feisty and funny as always, she turns a sharp eye on the world... Read more >
The Crooked Inheritance
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.00
An “exquisite . . . spot on” (The Hudson Review) collection of poems from one of our best-loved and best-selling poets that is both personal, with poetry about love, nature and reflections on the stages of life, and political, ranging from the war in Iraq and Katrina to concerns such as... Read more >
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.00
An “exquisite . . . spot on” (The Hudson Review) collection of poems from one of our best-loved and best-selling poets that is both personal, with poetry about love, nature and reflections on the stages of life, and political, ranging from the war in Iraq and Katrina to concerns such as... Read more >
Gone to Soldiers
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: April 12, 1988
Price: $7.99
In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and four men, who fought and died, worked and worried, and moved through the divisive days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, GONE TO SOLIDERS is an... Read more >
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: April 12, 1988
Price: $7.99
In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and four men, who fought and died, worked and worried, and moved through the divisive days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, GONE TO SOLIDERS is an... Read more >
He, She and It
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: January 23, 1993
Price: $7.99
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Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: January 23, 1993
Price: $7.99
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He, She and It
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $7.99
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Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $7.99
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The Hunger Moon
New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $19.95
Now in paperback: the superb selection from Marge Piercy's nine most recent books, the heart of her mature poems.
This gathering of Piercy's poems is the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982. These poems chart the milestone events and fierce passions of the poet's middle years: her Judaism, her... Read more >
New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $19.95
Now in paperback: the superb selection from Marge Piercy's nine most recent books, the heart of her mature poems.
This gathering of Piercy's poems is the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982. These poems chart the milestone events and fierce passions of the poet's middle years: her Judaism, her... Read more >
The Hunger Moon
New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $30.00
This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems—energetic, funny, political, full of vitality—brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982.
Here are poems that chart the milestone events and fierce passions of her middle years: the death of her mother, whom we... Read more >
New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $30.00
This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems—energetic, funny, political, full of vitality—brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982.
Here are poems that chart the milestone events and fierce passions of her middle years: the death of her mother, whom we... Read more >
The Hunger Moon
New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $14.99
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New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $14.99
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Mars and Her Children
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $18.00
A major new collection of poems about women's lives and the closing circle of nature, from a bestselling poet. These poems celebrate the beauties of nature and the eternal cycle of love, death and birth that is being interrupted by the assault on the environment. Read more >
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $18.00
A major new collection of poems about women's lives and the closing circle of nature, from a bestselling poet. These poems celebrate the beauties of nature and the eternal cycle of love, death and birth that is being interrupted by the assault on the environment. Read more >
Moon Is Always Female
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 12, 1980
Price: $16.95
Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions Read more >
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 12, 1980
Price: $16.95
Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions Read more >
My Mother's Body
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $16.00
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. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity... Read more >
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $16.00
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. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity... Read more >
Pesach for the Rest of Us
Making the Passover Seder Your Own
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.99
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Making the Passover Seder Your Own
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.99
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Pesach for the Rest of Us
Making the Passover Seder Your Own
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $22.95
Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes... Read more >
Making the Passover Seder Your Own
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $22.95
Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes... Read more >
Small Changes
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $25.00
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Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $25.00
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Small Changes
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
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Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
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Storm Tide
Written by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $12.95
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Written by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $12.95
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Storm Tide
Written by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $9.99
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Written by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $9.99
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What Are Big Girls Made Of?
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 4, 1997
Price: $16.00
Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-distant, half-brother, this major new collection by one of our bestselling poets then goes on to include both serious and funny poems about women and poems about the precarious balance of nature, ending with the beautiful, life-affirming "The Art of Blessing the... Read more >
Poems
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 4, 1997
Price: $16.00
Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-distant, half-brother, this major new collection by one of our bestselling poets then goes on to include both serious and funny poems about women and poems about the precarious balance of nature, ending with the beautiful, life-affirming "The Art of Blessing the... Read more >
Woman on the Edge of Time
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: November 12, 1985
Price: $7.99
Woman on the Edge of Time is a revelation of our present society and a startling juxtaposed projection of the androgynous society of Mattapoisett, a hundred years from now, where infants have three parents and the human person is paramount. Read more >
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: November 12, 1985
Price: $7.99
Woman on the Edge of Time is a revelation of our present society and a startling juxtaposed projection of the androgynous society of Mattapoisett, a hundred years from now, where infants have three parents and the human person is paramount. Read more >
Woman on the Edge of Time
Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 384 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: August 25, 2010
Price: $7.99
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Written by Marge Piercy
Format: eBook, 384 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: August 25, 2010
Price: $7.99
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