Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ...

Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Winning a Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction (1957) enabled her to finish college and spend some time in France, and her formal schooling ended with an M.A. from Northwestern University. Her first book of poems, Breaking Camp, was published in 1968. Flag Seal Nickname: Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates , Government Country State County United States Michigan Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 370. ... The Great Depression was known as a worldwide economic downturn, starting in 1929 and lasting through most of the 1930s. ... This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ... The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. ...

As of 2004 she is author of seventeen volumes of poems, among them The Moon is Always Female (1980, considered a feminist classic) and The Art of Blessing the Day (1999), as well as fifteen novels, one play (The Last White Class, co-authored with her third and current husband Ira Wood), one collection of essays (Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt), one nonfiction book, and one memoir. Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... An essay is a short work that treats a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... Non-fiction is a truthful account or representation of a subject which is composed of facts. ... As a literary genre, a memoir forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ...

Her novels and poetry often focus on feminist or social concerns, although her settings vary. While Body of Glass (published in the USA as He, She and It) is a cyber-fiction novel that won the Arthur C. Clarke award, City of Darkness, City of Light is set during the French Revolution. Other of her novels, such as Summer People and The Longings of Women are set during the modern day. Yet all of her books share a focus on women's lives. Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, a famous suffragette, in Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Liberty Leading the People, a painting by Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 but which has come to be generally accepted as symbolic of French popular uprisings against the monarchy in general and the French Revolution in particular. ...

Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) skilfully mixes a time travel story with issues of social justice, feminism and the treatment of the mentally ill. Body of Glass (1991) postulates an environmentally ruined world dominated by sprawling mega-cities and a futuristic version of the Internet, through which Piercy weaves elements of Jewish mysticism and the legend of the Golem, although a key story element is the main character's attempts to regain custody of her young son. Marge Piercys novel Woman on the Edge of Time (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976) is a utopian fantasy set in a realistic framework contrasting present day (1970s) New York City with the village of Mattapoisett in 2137. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In Jewish folklore, a golem (גולם, sometimes [as in Yiddish] pronounced goilem) is an animated being which is crafted from inanimate material. ...

Piercy's poetry tends to be highly personal free verse, and often addresses the same concern with feminist and social issues. Her work shows commitment to the dream of social change (what she might call, in Judaic terms, tikkun olam), rooted in story, the wheel of the Jewish year, and a range of landscapes/settings. Free verse (also at times referred to as vers libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers can perceive to be... Tikkun Olam (תיקון עולם) is a Hebrew phrase which translates literally as repairing the world. It is a belief that was made central by the Kabbalah, esoteric Jewish mysticism, which is developed in the Zohar, a classic book of Jewish mysticism. ...

She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts with her husband, Ira Wood. Astronaut photo of Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay Cape Cod (1033 km²) is an arm-shaped peninsula forming the Easternmost portion of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq. ...

Novels

• Going Down Fast, 1969
• Dance The Eagle To Sleep, 1970
• Small Changes, 1973
• Woman On The Edge of Time, 1976
• The High Cost of Living, 1978
• Vida, 1980
• Braided Lives, 1982
• Fly Away Home, 1980
• Gone To Soldiers, 1988
• Summer People, 1989
• He, She And It (aka Body of Glass), 1991
• The Longings of Women, 1994
• City of Darkness, City of Light, 1996
• Storm Tide, 1998 (with Ira Wood)
• Three Women, 1999
• The Third Child, 2003

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External links

• Piercy's homepage
• 1984 audio interview with Marge Piercy by Don Swaim
• Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive