Marge Piercy

Donna sul filo del tempo è la storia di Connie Ramos, una donna chicana ingiustamente rinchiusa in un ospedale psichiatrico, e del suo incontro con Luciente, una strana figura androgina apparentemente venuta dall'anno 2137. Attraverso il contatto con Luciente, Connie si ritrova proiettata dalla New York degli anni Settanta – lacerata da violenza, povertà e disuguaglianze – in una comunità che sembra esserne l' Mattapoisett, un piccolo villaggio alla foce di un fiume, dove gli abitanti portano curiosi nomi da nativi americani e gestiscono le risorse in un rapporto quasi sacrale con la natura; dove i ruoli di genere sono stati superati e la maternità è un compito condiviso tra donne e uomini; dove il denaro non esiste e la tecnologia è al servizio dei bisogni di tutti. Ma il futuro di Luciente, che tanto contrasta con le privazioni cui è sottoposta Connie nella sua reclusione, non è l'unico possibile, perché altri più minacciosi ne incombono. Un romanzo immaginifico in cui la denuncia sociale si mescola con la favola utopica, e che quasi cinquant'anni fa anticipava temi oggi più urgenti che mai, dai rapporti di potere tra i sessi alla libertà dei corpi, dall'emergenza ambientale alla distribuzione delle ricchezze.

Successful Boston cookbook author Daria Walker, whose greatest pleasures are her home and family -- and who loves her husband deeply -- is devastated to learn he wants a divorce. Now she must put her life back together. But as she strives to understand the life she is losing, Daria must face the shocking truth behind the smooth facade of her prominent attorney-husband, Ross -- and recreate her own values, her own sense of family, and herself.

In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and four men, who fought and died, worked and worried, and moved through the dizzying days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, Gone to Soldiers is an unforgettable reading experience and a stirring tribute to the remarkable survival of the human spirit.

In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions--and the ability to kill....

"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."—Alice HoffmanIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions—and the ability to kill. . . .From the imagination of Marge Piercy comes yet another stunning novel of morality and courage, a bold adventure of women, men, and the world of tomorrow.

Mujer al borde del tiempo, de Marge Piercy, es una de las novelas más aclamadas de su género. A menudo se la compara con otras fantasías feministas de los setenta, como Los Desposeídos, de Ursula K. Le Guin, o El Cuento de la Criada, de Margaret Atwood. Un clásico de la ficción especulativa que por fin se traduce al español, cuarenta años después de su publicación. Una mujer chicana, Connie Ramos, ha sido encarcelada injustamente en una institución mental de Nueva York. Las autoridades la consideran un peligro para sí misma y para los demás, e incluso su familia ha dejado de apoyarla. Pero Connie tiene un secreto, una forma de escapar de los confines de su celda: ella puede ver el futuro. Esta novela es una transformadora visión de dos futuros… y de cómo uno u otro pueden llegar a hacerse realidad. Por un lado, un tiempo de equidad racial y sexual, de dignidad medioambiental, un tiempo en el que es posible alcanzar una realización personal sin precedentes, donde todo el mundo participa por sorteo en el gobierno y la educación es comunitaria. Por otro, Connie también es testigo de otra posibilidad con un resultado muy distinto: una sociedad de explotación grotesca en la que las fronteras entre personas y mercancías han quedado definitivamente borradas. Tan desgarradora como profética, esta novela de referencia se dirige hoy a una nueva generación para la que estas opciones pesan más que nunca.

Marge Piercy'den unutulmaz bir eser daha. Jill ve Donna. Çocukluklarında başlayan dostluklarına 1953 yılında Michigan Üniversitesi'nin bir yurdunda devam etme imkânı bulabilmiş iki kuzen. Biri orta sınıf bir ailenin Katolik değerlerle yetiştirdiğini düşündüğü, diğeriyse alt orta sınıf bir ailenin hangi değerler bütününe uygun yetiştireceği konusunda uzlaşamadığı iki kız. Ayın karanlık ve aydınlık yüzü gibi birbirlerinin zıttı olsalar da aynı maddeden yapılmalar; yani kadınlar. Örülü Hayatlar'da kadınlığa özgü acıları, mutlulukları, dertleri ve hazları, kendini bir ağaç gibi cinsiyetsiz hisseden Jill'in ağzından dinliyoruz. Tur rehberimiz Jill bize kimi kendi gibi “sahte”, kimi “gerçek” onlarca kadın tanıtıyor, hepsini anlıyor, hepsine hak veriyoruz. Ona ilk erkek arkadaşıyla kol kola yürürken naifçe dayatılan; ilk diyaframını almak için gittiği jinekologdan alyansı olmadığı için geri çevrildiğindeyse çirkince dayatılan dişiliğini onunla beraber deneyimliyor, kendini sığdıramadığı bu kalıbın küçüklüğüne beraber şaşırıyor, ardından o günler çok eskilerde kaldığı için yine hep beraber derin bir oh çekiyoruz... Kaldı mı sahiden?

Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats. With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, Sleeping With Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself. A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, Sleeping With Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story.

Small Changes is the explosive novel of women struggling to make their places in a man's world. Set against the early days of the feminist movement, it tells of two women and the choices they must make. Intelligent, sensual Miriam Berg trades her doctorate for marriage and security, only to find herself hungry for a life of her own but terrified of losing her husband Shy, frightened Beth runs away from the very life Miriam seeks to a new world of different ideas, and a different kind of love--the love of another woman...

Connie Ramos, una donna di trentacinque anni, è stata dichiarata pazza. Ma Connie è senza dubbio sana di mente, semplicemente è sintonizzata sul futuro e in grado di comunicare con l'anno 2137. Mentre i medici vogliono convincerla ad accettare un'operazione, Connie lotta per costringersi ad ascoltare il futuro e le sue lezioni per il presente ....

This new gathering of Marge Piercy’s poems—energetic, funny, political, full of vitality—brings us the heart of her mature work, the first selected since Circles on the Water in 1982. Here are poems that chart the milestone events and fierce passions of her middle the death of her mother, whom we meet first as a young woman, “awkwardly lovely, her face / pure as a single trill perfectly / prolonged on a violin,” and again as an older woman musing on what the afterlife may hold for her. There is a new marriage which she celebrates not only for romantic beginnings but also for the more intimate details that emerge over “love cherishes too the backpockets, / the pencil ends of childhood fears.” Some poems convey her long-held, never-wavering political convictions, which she declares in language unmistakably and colorfully her own, as when she encourages her feminist readers to go to the opera instead of the movies because at least there the heroine is real, “fifty and weighs as much as a ’65 Chevy with fins.” Living out to sea on Cape Cod settles her into the rhythm of seasons and provides poems of planting and harvests, odes to tomatoes and roses, tributes to the power and freedom of whales. And in these years she rediscovers her Jewish heritage, celebrating holidays and making of them something new and original. She begins to examine her own I have worn the faces, the masks of hieroglyphs, gods and demons, bat faced ghosts, sibyls and thieves, lover, loser, red rose and ragweed, these are the tracks I have left on the white crust of time.

Her marriage over, her life unraveling, writer Leila Landsman turns to work and finds herself drawn to the sensational story of Becky Burgess, a young woman accused of killing her husband with the help of her teenage lover. Becky thought she'd escaped the grim poverty of her childhood when she married up, but her husband was soon planning to trade her in for a newer model. And that's just what happened to Mary Burke, whose middle-class life ended with her divorce. Now Leila's housecleaner, Mary has a secret: she is homeless. They are three very different women who share the same longings: to be seen for who they are, to be valued and loved, but most of all, to have a physical and emotional home that can't be taken away....

“The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower frame, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships and mourning the death of friends. They speak of zucchini and oaks and cats, of jogging and writing, of nuclear power plants and suicide, of fat and of street hassling. ”The Lunar Cycle forms the second part. I first heard of the lunar calendar in my childhood, when I asked why Passover falls on a different date every year and was answered that it falls on Nisan 14, the fourteenth day of the lunar month of Nisan. The next time I came across the moon-month was in reading Robert Graves in search of the old goddess religions. But the lunar calendar has really only been an intimate part of my life since I moved near the ocean and the bay and had to become conscious of the tides; for one thing, to get the sweet Wellfleet oysters. For more precise understanding I owe a lot to Nancy F. W.Passmore of the Luna Press, who every year produces The Lunar Calendar with thirteen months, their old Celtic names, associations from around the world, time of moon rise and set and all the phases. It tells me at a glance when my period will come and when I can expect to ovulate, and it is the most beautiful calendar I have ever seen, with the months in the form of spirals rather than grids. ”Not being constrained by commerce to produce a calendar to sell by January first, Roman time, I begin when my year opens, in the spring; with Nisan, the first month of the Jewish religious year – although I have used the Celtic names, as does The Lunar Calendar, in homage to that labor of love. Rediscovering the lunar calendar has been a part of rediscovering women’s past, but it has also meant for me a series of doorways to some of the non-rational aspects of being a living woman: Thus The Lunar Cycle, explorations of my last two years.”

Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approved of her choices, has been felled by age and illness. And, for the first time in her life, she needs Suzanne's help. Intertwining the lives of three generations of contemporary women, master storyteller Marge Piercy plunges into the deepest, most elemental basics of life -- love, aging, illness, and death -- and emerges with a brave, compassionate exploration of the volatile ground between mothers and daughters.

Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-distant, half-brother, this major new collection by one of our bestselling poets then goes on to include both serious and funny poems about women and poems about the precarious balance of nature, ending with the beautiful, life-affirming "The Art of Blessing the Day." 160 pp.

After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...

After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony.But Connie also bears witness to another potential a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...