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Entwicklungsroman und historische Frauensaga: Donna und Jill, jetzt neu als Taschenbuch, schildert das Erwachsenwerden einer impulsiven jungen Frau, die aus den Normen ihrer Zeit ausbricht. Lebhaft und überraschend humorvoll beschreibt der Roman die nicht enden wollenden Kämpfe zwischen Mutter und Tochter und die Auseinandersetzung der Heranwachsenden mit neuen Erfahrungen, Ideen und Wünschen: Jills Schritte ins selbstbestimmte Leben sind eine...

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Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy's landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures-and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before.

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 around her, bidding an ex-hausted farewell to the twentieth century and singing an "electronic breakdown blues" for the twenty-first. She memorializes movingly th...

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 and emotional, with their intense ambivalence, pain and joy, themes of separation and reconnecting, are among the very strongest ab...

Ein Juwel der utopischen Frauen-Literatur: Connie Ramos lebt in den Slums von New York. Als sie versucht, ihre Nichte vor einem Zuhälter zu schützen, wird sie bewusstlos geprügelt und erwacht im Irrenhaus. Doch da ist jemand, den Anstaltsmauern nicht fernhalten können: ein geheimnisvolles Wesen namens Luciente, das schon früher manchmal bei Connie aufgetaucht ist. Sie weiß nicht recht, was sie davon halten soll. Ist es ein junger Mann, der ält...

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 women's rights and the poet's childhood in Detroit.

Connie Ramos lebt in den Slums von New York. Als sie versucht, ihre Nichte vor einem Zuhälter zu schützen, wird sie bewusstlos geprügelt und erwacht im Irrenhaus. Doch da ist jemand, den Anstaltsmauern nicht fernhalten können: ein geheimnisvolles Wesen namens Luciente, das schon früher manchmal bei Connie aufgetaucht ist. Sie weiß nicht recht, was sie davon halten soll. Ist es ein junger Mann, der ältere Frauen abschleppt? Luciente selbst beha...

Piercy writes of women and poetry and of woman becoming poet

In the choices two different women make, we discover the lives of all women . . . "[Marge] Piercy has proved herself a sensitive champion of women's issues."-The Charlotte ObserverSmall Changes is the explosive novel of women struggling to make their places in a man's world. Set against the early days of the feminist movement, it tells of two women and the choices they must face.Intelligent, sensual Miriam Berg trades her doctorate for a marri...

An audio CD "Greatest Hits" political poems from one of America's best-known and best-selling activist poets.

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 Day." 160 pp.

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 and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification."The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding c...

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

A generous collection of early poems by one of America's best known and bestselling poets. "Her poems are rough, direct, hairy, political, tremendously energetic. Visionary, vulnerable, and real".--Margaret Atwood.