Marge Piercy

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This paper takes a look at the work of Marge Percy, poet and novelist. The paper reviews one of Percy's most recent books of poetry, 'Colors Passing Through Us'. According to the paper, this book of poems offers a visual glimpse into the joy, sadness, and foibles of present times.

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"Thus, regardless whether Piercy's verse is about something she experienced firsthand in life, or someone else did, she writes in such a way that anyone can identify with the poetry. In the first section of Colors, it is easy to feel close to Piercy's mother in the "good old days," sitting on a tenement step, washing and hanging clothes, ironing her husband's underwear and screaming and looking ashamed and abashed after having an abortion. "
"Likewise, for those readers who are fortunate enough not have lost someone close, they can still feel deeply for the family that Piercy writes about who lost its favorite pet cat, a parent on September 2001, a loved one in a country's violently torn civil war . "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Daiches, David. "Composition of Poetry: Meaningful Soul Poem." Website retrieved December 1, 2006. http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-25-2005-64756.asp
• Marge Piercy website. Looking at Myself A Study in Focused Myopia From Parti- Colored Blocks for a Quilt, (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI). Website retrieved December 1, 2006. http://www.margepiercy.com/main- pages/38-books-reviews.htm
• Piercey, Marge. (2003) Colors Passing Through Us. New York: Alfred Knopf.

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