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Colors Passing Through Us : Poems

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    9780375415371

  • ISBN10:

    0375415378

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-03-01
  • Publisher: Knopf
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Summary

InColors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. Feisty and funny as always, she turns a sharp eye on the world around her, bidding an exhausted farewell to the twentieth century and singing an "electronic breakdown blues" for the twenty-first. She memorializes movingly those who, likelos desaparecidosand the victims of 9/11, disappear suddenly and without a trace. She writes an elegy for her mother, a woman who struggled with a deadening round o fhousework, washin gon Monday, ironing on Tuesday, and so on, "until stroke broke/her open." She remembers the scraps of lace, the touch of velvet, that were part of her maternal inheritance and fist aroused her sensual curiosity. Here are paeans to the pleasures of the natural world (rosy ripe tomatoes, a mating dance of hawks) as the poet confronts her own mortality in the cycle of seasons and the eternity of the cosmos: "iam hurrying, I am running hard / toward I don't know what, / but I mean to arrive before dark." Other poems--about her grandmother's passage from Russia to the New World, or the interrupting of a Passover seder to watch a comet pass--expand on Piercy's appreciation of Jewish life that won her so much acclaim inThe Art of Blessing the Day. Colors Passing Through Usis a moving celebration of the endurance of love an dof the phenomenon of life itself--a book to treasure.

Author Biography

Marge Piercy is the author of fifteen previous books of poetry. she has also written fifteen novels, including <b>Woman on the Edge of Time</b>; <b>Gone to Soldiers</b>; <b>He, She and It</b>; <b>City of Darkness, City of Light</b>; and <b>Three Women</b>, her most recent, as well as a memoir titled <b>Sleeping with Cats</b>. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into sixteen languages. Among many honors, in 1990, she won the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood, the noveleis and publisher of Leapfrog Press.

Table of Contents

WOMEN OF DARK HOUSES
Photograph of my mother sitting on the steps
3(2)
In the attic of dreams
5(1)
One reason I like opera
6(2)
The good old days at home sweet home
8(3)
Her body inscribes
11(1)
Lost
12(2)
The glamour of it
14(2)
My mother gives me her recipe
16(2)
The day my mother died
18(2)
Too long dead
20(2)
Long night of the incomplete
22(2)
Jolly woman with birds
24(2)
Still the desert
26(2)
In the department store
28(1)
Love has certain limited powers
29(1)
After the darkness
30(2)
Chrysanthemum season
32(1)
Hunting the hunter
33(1)
The clock in the closet
34(5)
OTHERWISE
No one came home
39(6)
The true patriot
45(1)
Dirty old century: 12-31-99
46(2)
Got the 21st century blues
48(2)
Resort offseason
50(2)
Minor losses
52(1)
The disintegration
53(2)
Finest porcelain
55(1)
Family values
56(3)
Gifts that keep on giving
59(2)
Kamasutra for dummies
61(2)
He left but can't let go
63(1)
Not in the dark
64(1)
How it was with us, dear grandchildren
65(4)
WINTER PROMISES
Winter promises
69(1)
Where beach umbrellas spread gaudy circles
70(1)
Take it as it comes
71(2)
The gardener's litany
73(2)
Eclipse at the solstice
75(1)
A kind of theft
76(2)
The rain as wine
78(1)
The corner
79(2)
Taconic at midnight
81(2)
The equinox rush
83(2)
After the loss
85(1)
The aria
86(2)
Leonids over us
88(3)
LITTLE LIGHTS
Little lights
91(2)
Seder with comet
93(2)
Quieting by the bay
95(1)
Sometimes while I am chanting
96(1)
Time of year
97(1)
Sins of omission
98(1)
Shadows on darkness
99(1)
Tapuz: an orange
100(1)
The cameo
101(2)
Miriam's cup
103(4)
COLORS PASSING THROUGH US
Colors passing through us
107(3)
The grammatical difference between lay and lie
110(1)
Love's clay
111(1)
Old moon cradling the new moon
112(1)
Chilled through
113(1)
The first time I tasted you
114(1)
Black leaves
115(1)
The animal kingdom
116(2)
How it goes with us
118(1)
Black taffeta
119(1)
Firebird
120(1)
Worlds without end
121(4)
RISING IN PERILOUS HOPE
Rising in perilous hope
125(1)
Burnishing memory
126(2)
The new era, c. 1946
128(2)
The yellow light
130(2)
Frozen as far as the eye can see
132(1)
Flying over the Nebraska of my life
133(2)
Roomers, rumors
135(2)
Borrowed lives
137(2)
Mexico City, 1968, summer
139(1)
Photo instead of friend
140(1)
Dignity
141(2)
The garden of almost
143(1)
On the water, reflecting herself
144(1)
I awake feathered
145(1)
The joys of a bad reputation
146(2)
Old cat crying
148(1)
The lower crust
149(1)
Traveling dream
150(2)
A conversation with memory
152(2)
Tasting evanescence
154(2)
As the way narrows
156

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Excerpts

--from page 125

Rising in perilous hope
12728
What can I hold in my hands this morning
that will not flow through my fingers?

What words can I say that will catch
in your mind like burrs, chiggers that burrow?

If my touch could heal, I would lay my hands
on your bent head and bellow prayers.

If my words could change the weather
or the government or the way the world

twists and guts us, fast or slow,
what could I do but what I do now?

I fit words together and say them;
it is a given like the color of my eyes.

I hope it makes a small difference, as
I hope the drought will break and the morning

come rising out of the ocean wearing
a cloak of clean sweet mist and swirling terns.

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