The Moon is Always Female

Marge Piercy

Knopf, 1980 - Poetry - 133 pages

Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions

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Contents

• The inside chance: 3
• Excursions incursions: 10
• Leonard Avenue: 16

About the author

Poet and novelist Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 31, 1936. She received a B. A. from the University of Michigan and an M. A. from Northwestern. She is involved in the Jewish renewal and political work and was part of the civil rights movement. She won the Arthur C. Clarke award. Besides writing her own novels and collections of poetry, she has collaborated with her husband Ira Wood on a play, The Last White Class, and a novel, Storm Tide. In 1997, they founded a small literary publishing company called the Leapfrog Press. She currently lives in Cape Cod.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Moon is Always Female; A Borzoi book
• Author: Marge Piercy
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf, 1980
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 12, 2008
• ISBN: 0394509773, 9780394509778
• Length: 133 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General