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Marge Piercy is the author of sixteen previous books of poetry. She has also written seventeen novels, including Woman on the Edge of Time; Gone to Soldiers; He, She and It; City of Darkness, City of Light; and Sex Wars, as well as a memoir entitled Sleeping with Cats. With Ira Wood, she is the coauthor of So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and the Personal Narrative, now in its second edition. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages, and she has won many honors, including, in 1990, the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry... Read More
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Woman on the Edge of Time
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1985
Price: $7.99
Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1985
Price: $7.99
Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its... Read more >
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He, She and It
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 23, 1993
Price: $7.50
"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."
Alice Hoffman
In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 23, 1993
Price: $7.50
"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."
Alice Hoffman
In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so... Read more >
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The Art of Blessing the Day
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $16.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $16.00
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 >
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Moon Is Always Female
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1980
Price: $16.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1980
Price: $16.00
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 >
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Gone to Soldiers
Format: Paperback, 800 pages
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 dizzying days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, GONE TO SOLIDERS is an... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 800 pages
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 dizzying days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, GONE TO SOLIDERS is an... Read more >
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The Crooked Inheritance
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
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My Mother's Body
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
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 >
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City of Darkness, City of Light
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
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 >
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Pesach for the Rest of Us
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
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 >
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What Are Big Girls Made Of?
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
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Braided Lives
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $27.00
Growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, and going to college when the first seeds of sexual freedom are being sown, Jill and Donna are coming of age in an exciting, turbulent time. Wry, independent Jill thrives in the new free-spirited world, while her beautiful cousin Donna desperately searches for a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $27.00
Growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, and going to college when the first seeds of sexual freedom are being sown, Jill and Donna are coming of age in an exciting, turbulent time. Wry, independent Jill thrives in the new free-spirited world, while her beautiful cousin Donna desperately searches for a... Read more >
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Colors Passing Through Us
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
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Storm Tide
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $12.95
After his dreams of playing baseball in the Majors fall short and his marriage ends, David Greene returns to his small hometown on Cape Cod. There he meets the eminent professor, Gordon Stone, and his beautiful wife, Judith Silver, with whom he soon falls into a passionate affair. Into this explosive... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $12.95
After his dreams of playing baseball in the Majors fall short and his marriage ends, David Greene returns to his small hometown on Cape Cod. There he meets the eminent professor, Gordon Stone, and his beautiful wife, Judith Silver, with whom he soon falls into a passionate affair. Into this explosive... Read more >
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Small Changes
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $25.00
"Marge Piercy is a raw, tough, willfull, magnificent novelist."
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Set against the early days of the modern feminist movement, SMALL CHANGES tells the story of sensual Miriam Berg, who trades her doctorate for marriage and security, but still hungers for a life of her ow,n and shy, frightened Beth... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $25.00
"Marge Piercy is a raw, tough, willfull, magnificent novelist."
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Set against the early days of the modern feminist movement, SMALL CHANGES tells the story of sensual Miriam Berg, who trades her doctorate for marriage and security, but still hungers for a life of her ow,n and shy, frightened Beth... Read more >
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Circles on the Water
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1982
Price: $22.50
More than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1982
Price: $22.50
More than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982. Read more >
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Mars and Her Children
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
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 >
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Pesach for the Rest of Us
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
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 >
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
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 >
Also available as a
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