The Crooked Inheritance
Poems
Published on 28. August 2013
176 pages
978-0-307-49466-5 (ISBN)
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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.
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Person
Marge Piercy is the author of sixteen previous books of poetry. She has also written seventeen novels, including Woman on the Edge of Time; Gone to Soldiers; He, She and It; City of Darkness, City of Light; and Sex Wars, as well as a memoir entitled Sleeping with Cats. With Ira Wood, she is the coauthor of So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and the Personal Narrative, now in its second edition. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages, and she has won many honors, including, in 1990, the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist and publisher of Leapfrog Press.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tracks
- A vision of horses and mules
- Tracks
- The crooked inheritance
- Seven horses
- Muttering
- Talking with my mother
- Swear it
- The streets of Detroit were lined with elms
- Dress up
- Minor street flooding is expected
- Motown, Arsenal of Democracy
- Portrait of the poet as a young nerd
- In the raw
- Phantom pain
- Pick a number
- Dislocation
- The closet of doom
- The Hollywood haircut
- Minor characters
- In praise of joe
- The special one
- The wind of saying
- How to Make Pesto
- The good, the bad and the inconvenient
- The orphan
- A long and busy night
- Buried
- February ground
- The stray
- The month of aspirin
- More than enough
- Intense
- How to make pesto
- Well done
- Hurricane warning
- The moon as cat as peach
- August like lint in the lungs
- Fagged out
- October nor'easter
- The dawn of nothing
- Metamorphosis
- Choose A Color
- Choose a color
- Choices
- Mighty big
- Security bottle
- Counting the after-math
- Your proper place
- Rotten
- Tanks in the streets
- Sur l'ile Saint Louis
- Deadlocked wedlock
- National monument: Castle Clinton
- I met a woman who wasn't there
- Morning's e-mail
- Absolutely safe
- Money is one of those things
- Less than you bargained for
- White night
- Buyer beware
- Sneak and peek
- In our name
- Mating
- In St. Mawes
- Not knowing what I know
- The young and the stupid
- Many, many loves
- Bashert
- Bread dreams
- Train from Nice
- Famous lovers stumbled upon
- The house is empty
- The lived in look
- Making love new
- Hot heart
- Falling uphill
- At the core of loving, fear
- Mated
- The poetry of flesh
- The mystery of survival
- The Birthday of the World
- My grandmother's song
- The late year
- The birthday of the world
- Ne'ilah
- A horizon of ghosts
- In the sukkah
- Season of skinny candles
- The full moon of Nisan
- The seder's order
- Peace in a time of war
- The cup of Eliyahu
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
