Marge piercy biography of george michael

Details of his life are hazy because he didn't keep a diary or leave behind any letters, and while he completed three volumes of poetry, he.

Piercy is a poet who harbors no romantic delusions about poetry, either its supposed role “to change things” or the even more problematic attitude....

Bio

Marge Piercy was born March 31, 1936 in Detroit into a family that had been, like many others, affected by the Depression.

Her mother, Bert Bernice Bunnin, born in Philadelphia, had lived also in Pittsburgh and Cleveland; her father Robert Douglas Piercy grew up in a small town in the soft coal mining region of Pennsylvania. They had not been living in Detroit long.

Her father, out of work for some time, got a job installing and repairing heavy machinery at Westinghouse. When Piercy was little, they moved into a small house in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit which was black and white by blocks.

Piercy had one brother, fourteen years older, her mother’s son by a previous marriage..

The collection offers insight into Piercy's literary career from the late 1950s through the present, primarily by way of manuscripts of nearly all of her works.

Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen novels including the national bestsellers Gone To Soldiers, Braided Lives, and Woman on the Edge of Time; seventeen.

Piercy is a poet who harbors no romantic delusions about poetry, either its supposed role “to change things” or the even more problematic attitude.

Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern, and the recipient of four honorary doctorates, Piercy is active in antiwar.

Like May Sarton (whom Piercy knew), she devotes equal energy to both fiction and poetry and is an inveterate cat lady.

Piercy’s maternal grandfather Morris was a union organizer murdered while organizing bakery workers. Her maternal grandmother, Hannah, of whom Piercy was particularly fond, was born in a Lithuanian stetl, the daughter of a rabbi.

“Grandmother Hannah was a great storyteller. Sh