Mars And Her Children - Hardcover

Piercy, Marge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067941004X ISBN 13: 9780679410041

Publisher: Knopf, 1992

Synopsis

A selection of poems by the novelist, poet, and essayist deal with the approaching end of the century and the pleasures and problems of modern life

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 067941004X
• ISBN 13: 9780679410041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 165