Marge Piercy Libri

Jill and her best friend, Donna, attend the university at Ann Arbor during the fifties, and each tries to develop a way to control her own life

Awarded the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize, this collection showcases the poet's profound exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the passage of time. The verses are marked by vivid imagery and emotional depth, inviting readers to reflect on their own experiences. With a unique voice and a blend of personal and universal themes, the poems resonate with authenticity and insight, making this work a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.

First published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercys classic bookend to the sixties. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the centre of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 60s she was a political star of the exuberant ...

More than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982.

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 Soldiers is an unforgettable reading experience and a stirring tribute to the remarkable survival of the human spirit.

"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. Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory: if men can make things happen, perhaps women can too. . . . Manon Philipon finds she has a talent for politics--albeit as the ghostwriter of her husband's speeches. . . . And Pauline L'on knows one thing for certain: the women must apply the pressure or their male colleagues will let them starve. While illuminating the lives of Robespierre, Danton, and Condorcet, Piercy also opens to us the minds and hearts of women who change their world, live their ideals--and are prepared to die for them."--Publisher's description.

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

The stories of three women who have reached crossroads in their lives_

A strange mixture of past and future, woven around the Jewish community in Prague during the 16th-century holocaust, and the new world in the 21st century. The author also wrote "Braided Lives", "Gone to Soldiers", "Small Changes", "Summer People" and "Vida".