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 Early Grrrl
The Early Poems of Marge Piercy The 'Grrrl' phenomenon is a contemporary expression of young women's humor and rage exploding in books and zines, concerts, films, and the internet. In homage to a new generation of tough young feminists, Marge Piercy presents a gathering of poems that reveal the poet as an early 'Grrrl.' Comprising over ninety poems selected from four books now out of print; poems previously published in literary magazines but never before collected and very early poems never published, this volume presents the bold and passionate political verse for which Piercy is well known alongside poems celebrating the sensual pleasures of gardening and cooking and sex; funny poems about New Year's Eve and warring boom boxes; vulnerable poems in which a young working class woman from the Midwest takes stock of herself and the limits of her world. For longtime fans and those new to Piercy's early work, this volume is an indispensable addition to the oeuvre of one of America's best-known and best-selling poets. "Early Grrrl shows the skeptical eye
how poets are born. This collection has many delights for Piercy fans . . .This is an
important book. Many poems here are unpublished elsewhere. Many are indispensable works
from one of America's most important poets." "Piercy is a poet of womanhood and compassion, conscience and spirit, and
her poems are as magnetic as mirrors: no one can resist them, and all, at least every
woman, will catch a glimpse of themselves in their warm and dancing light … It is
obvious from the bright, saucy and shrewd early poems collected in Early Grrrl that
Piercy's gift … is the truth of both nature and nurture. Piercy has dedicated this
collection of long-out-of-print and never-before-published works to the women of the
vibrant Grrrl movement—a feisty form of feminist expression found in zines and music
and on the web—because Piercy has been Grrrl long before Grrrl got its name." "A glance at Early Grrrl: The Early poems of Marge Piercy shows … the
skeptical eye how a poet is born, how she evolves and how a bunch of broken lines goes
from being a novelty to poetry. Piercy starts off being talented, but she ends being
muscularly gifted. Her best poems are like finely wrought sculptures…with firm grasp
of emotional nuance. They challenge and delight and move. This collection has many
delights for Piercy fans. This is an important book." "This writer likes to fly in the face of restraint, decorum and subtlety.
[Early Grrrl] will be important to those who follow her work closely." "Early Grrl stands on its own as a collection of potent, forceful
poems, but it is even sweeter to readers who will recognize in the adolescent Piercy the
woman she became. What a thrill to watch as her signature themes, images and linguistic
style take root." "Early Grrrl resonates with the same passionate themes as her later
poetry: politics; gardening; the Holocaust; women; writing; love; cats; and resonates with
the contemporary energy of grrrl zines, music and manifestoes." Marge Piercy is the author of sixteen novels and sixteen books of poetry, including Colors Passing Through Us (Knopf); The Art of Blessing the Day (Knopf), a selection of her spiritual poems; and What Are Big Girls Made Of? (Knopf), selected as a Best Book of the Year by the American Library Association. Publishers Weekly (11/10/03) calls her latest novel The Third Child (Wm. Morrow/HaperCollins) "a biting contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet and an acidic commentary on Washington political culture." So You Want To Write: How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and The Personal Narrative has been selected a "Best Book of the Year for Writers." The Washington Post calls her memoir, Sleeping with Cats (Wm. Morrow/HaperCollins): "An enriching pleasure. A lovingly written memoir by a woman in touch with what matters." She was born in Detroit and has lived in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Paris. She now makes her home in a small fishing village in Massachusetts and is at work on a new novel about the 19th Century sex wars in post-Civil War NYC. Find out much more about Marge Piercy on her website www.margepiercy.com. POETRY |