By Marge Piercy
ISBN-10: 0307594106
ISBN-13: 9780307594105
ISBN-10: 037571202X
ISBN-13: 9780375712029
Here are poems that chart the milestone occasions and fierce passions of her center years: the loss of life of her mom, whom we meet first as a tender girl, “awkwardly stunning, her face / natural as a unmarried trill completely / lengthy on a violin,” and back as an older girl musing on what the afterlife may perhaps carry for her. there's a new marriage which she celebrates not just for romantic beginnings but in addition for the extra intimate information that emerge over the years: “love cherishes too the backpockets, / the pencil ends of early life fears.”
Some poems exhibit her long-held, never-wavering political convictions, which she proclaims in language unmistakably and colorfully her personal, as whilst she encourages her feminist readers to visit the opera rather than the flicks simply because not less than there the heroine is actual, “fifty and weighs up to a ’65 Chevy with fins.”
Living out to sea on Cape Cod settles her into the rhythm of seasons and offers poems of planting and harvests, odes to tomatoes and roses, tributes to the facility and freedom of whales. And in those years she rediscovers her Jewish history, celebrating vacations and making of them anything new and unique.
She starts off to ascertain her personal legacy:
I have worn the faces, the masks
of hieroglyphs, gods and demons,
bat confronted ghosts, sibyls and thieves,
lover, loser, pink rose and ragweed,
these are the tracks i've got left
on the white crust of time.
From the Hardcover edition.
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