| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 165 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Fox Grapes -- Softly during the night -- Bell song -- Thinking of Homer at twilight -- The seduction of anticipated pain -- Waking with my ears ringing -- What crosses over -- Report of the Gourteenth Subcommittee on Convening a Discussion Group -- Do not erect the wall before yourselves -- Of the patience called forth by transition -- Dreaming the frog's sleep -- At the new moon: Rosh Hodesh -- Apple sauce for Eve -- Runt vigor -- Core memory -- Dream of white and red poppies -- Blood lake -- Cousin, Cousine -- Like little firecrackers in the brain -- Your father's fourth heart attack -- Cast skins -- Up and out -- The ex in the supermarket -- True romance -- Yearning to repossess the body -- Peeled after flu -- A line of dancers through time -- Heel should not be an insult -- Old shoes -- It ain't heavy, it's my purse -- In June all things wake fully -- Detroit, summer camp -- Hot, hotter -- The possession -- Persimmon pudding -- Shad blow -- Bite into the onion -- Toward a sudden silence -- The heart's clock -- The truth accorking to Ludd -- Getting it back -- Domestic danger -- When too much is barely enough -- Frog song -- Yellow, red, blue -- Woman in the bushes -- Blizzard comes -- A newly sharpened wind -- For each age, its amulet -- Returning to the cemetery in the old Prague ghetto -- I have always been poor at flirting -- The diminishing addition -- Practicing with the windows open -- Little Pishna revisited -- Teaching experience -- For she is a tree of life -- Subtle commands of the earth -- The 31st of March -- It arrives suddenly and carries us off as usual -- Why I bought the stupid palm tree dish -- A garden of words -- The Book of Ruth and Naomi -- Underwater breathing -- Detroint means strait -- Your eyes recall old fantasies -- Wet -- Three a.m. feeding -- Anxiety wins a round -- We speak of seeing the heron, as if there were only one -- The wind changes -- The pain came back like something sharp in my eye -- The whale we are -- For Mars and her children returning in March -- The cat's song -- How the full moon wakes you -- The hunger moon -- Shabbat moment -- Amidah: on our feet we speak to you -- Feeling quite temporary -- Sexual selection among birds -- Imaging -- The price of the body -- The task never completed. |
| Summary |
A selection of poems by the novelist, poet, and essayist deal with the approaching end of the century and the pleasures and problems of modern life. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- Women authors.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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American poetry -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807417
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Piercy, Marge. Mars and her children. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1992 (OCoLC)645823969 |
| ISBN |
067941004X |
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9780679410041 |
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0679738770 (pbk.) |
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9780679738770 (pbk.) |
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