Marge Piercy: "Vida". Roman

Marge Piercy: "Vida". Roman

Amerikansk forfatter på norsk

Pax, 1980.

Innbundet. Smussomslag.

Originalens tittel: "Piercy"

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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.

Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan,[2]to a Bert (Bunnin) Piercy and Robert Piercy. 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. She earned a M.A. from Northwestern University. Her first book of poems, Breaking Camp, was published in 1968.

An indifferent student in her early years, Piercy developed a love of books when she came down with rheumatic fever in her mid-childhood and could do little but read. "It taught me that there's a different world there, that there were all these horizons that were quite different from what I could see".

Piercy was a significant feminist voice in the New Left and SDS.

Piercy is author of more than 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 non-fiction book, and one memoir.

Her novels and poetry often focus on feminist or social concerns, although her settings vary. While Body of Glass (published in the US as He, She and It) is a science 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. All of her books share a focus on women's lives.

Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) mixes a time travel story with issues of social justice, feminism, and the treatment of the mentally ill. This novel is considered a classic of utopian "speculative" science fiction as well as a feminist classic.[8] William Gibson has credited Woman on the Edge of Time as the birthplace of Cyberpunk. Piercy tells this in an introduction to Body of Glass. Body of Glass (He, She and It) (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.

Many of Piercy's novels tell their stories from the viewpoints of multiple characters, often including a first-person voice among numerous third-person narratives. Her World War II historical novel, Gone To Soldiers (1987) follows the lives of nine major characters in the United States, Europe and Asia. The first-person account in Gone To Soldiers is the diary of French teenager Jacqueline Levy-Monot, who is also followed in a third-person account after her capture by the Nazis.

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, or the repair of the world), rooted in story, the wheel of the Jewish year, and a range of landscapes and settings.

She lives in Wellfleet with her husband, Ira Wood.

* 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, 1985

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

Sex Wars, 2005

Poetry collections[edit]

Breaking out, 1984

Hard Loving, 1969

4-Telling ( with Emmett Jarrett, Dick Lourie, Robert Hershon), 1971

To Be of Use, 1973

Living in the Open, 1976

The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing, 1978

The Moon is Always Female, 1980

Circles on the Water, Selected Poems, 1982

Stone, Paper, Knife, 1983

My Mother's Body, 1985

Available Light, 1988

Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now (ed.), 1988; 1993

Mars and her Children, 1992

What are Big Girls Made Of, 1997

Early Grrrl, 1999.

The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems With a Jewish Theme, 1999

Colours Passing Through Us, 2003

* Collected other

The Grand Coolie Damn" in Sisterhood is Powerful, 1970

The Last White Class, (play co-authored with Ira Wood), 1979

Parti-Colored Blocks For a Quilt, (essays), 1982

The Earth Shines Secretly: A book of Days, (daybook calendar), 1990

So You Want to Write, (non-fiction), 2001

Sleeping with Cats, (memoir), 2002

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