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MARS AND HER CHILDREN. First edition - 1992 - 1st Edition

by Piercy, Marge

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A major new collection of poems about women's lives and the closing circle of nature, from a bestselling poet. These poems celebrate the beauties of nature and the eternal cycle of love, death and birth that is being interrupted by the assault on the environment.

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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1992.. First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A new book of poems with advance praise from May Sarton, Joy Harjo (who called them 'wise poems, ripe with the sweetness of apples, pithy with the tartness of truth') and Carolyn Kizer.
Used - Very good in illustrated wrappers.
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  • Title MARS AND HER CHILDREN.
  • Author Piercy, Marge
  • Binding First edition -
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very good in illustrated wrappers.
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf,, New York:
  • Date 1992.
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 28949
  • ISBN 9780679738770 / 0679738770
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.28 x 5.59 x 0.65 in (21.03 x 14.20 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91029247
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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  • Booklist, 03/15/1992, Page 1332

About the author

Marge Piercy is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including The Art of Blessing the Day; Early Grrrl; Mars and Her Children, My Mother's Body; Available Light; Stone, Paper, Knife; The Moon Is Always Female; and her selected poems, Circles on the Water. Her book of craft essays, Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt, is part of the Poets on Poetry series of the University of Michigan Press, and she edited a poetry anthology, Early Ripening. In 1990 her poetry won the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She has written fourteen novels, including He, She and It (winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award), The Longings of Women and City of Darkness, City of Light. The novel Storm Tide, co-authored with her husband, Ira Wood, was published in June 1998. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into sixteen languages. She and her husband live on Cape Cod.

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