This new gathering of Marge Piercy's poems--funny, angry, in awe of life, compassionate--brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since *Circles on the Water* in 1982. Here, poems chart the milestone events and fierce passions of the poet's middle years, her Judaism, her deep
A phone call to the future: new and selected poems
β Scribed by Mary Jo Salter
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2013;2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1306070597
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This "wholly attractive volume" that brings together twenty-five years of "elegantly shaped and voiced creations" (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter's five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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