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	1 Piercy, Marge Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now Pandora Pr 1988 0-86358-141-2 / 9780863581410 Paperback  Condition good. Isbn 0-86358-141-2, 0863581412.In this expansive anthology, Peircy places well-known women poets Rich, Kumin, Clampitt, and Lorde alongside lesser-known voices that insist on being heard. She defines the feminism in these poems as resting on an awareness of being part of the whole, "which is holy." The poets track many themes and longings, and as they cope simply by naming their experiences, give us the shape of an era. Here, woman competes with the world for her own time and voice, as in Kathleen Spivack's "This square/is made up of/ moments of past happiness/ duplicated/ throughout the entire quilt" or the courageous Meridel LeSueur's "I am luminous with age/ In my lap I hold the valley,/ I see on the horizon what has been taken."  Price: 18.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Piercy, Marge Woman On the Edge of Time The Women's Press 1993 0-7043-3837-8 / 9780704338371 Paperback  Paperback in average condition, internally fine but creasing to cover. 1993reprint. From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Holly Smith. - With honest and compelling prose, Marge Piercy delves into the mind of thirty-seven-year-old Consuelo (Connie) Ramos, a woman who exists on the fringes of lifein contemporary New York City. Early in the novel Connie beats up her niece's pimp and is committed - again - to the psychiatric ward in Bellevue Hospital. The novel shifts between the horrible conditions in psychiatric wards and the year 2137, as Connie at first talks to, then time travels with Luciente, a person from that future time. Luciente lives in a non-sexist, communal country where people's survival is ensured based on need, not money.A sense of freedom, choice, and safety are part of Luciente's world; Connie's world is the complete opposite. Though Connie struggles to stand up forherself and others in the treatment centers, she knows that the drugs she is forced to take weaken her in every way. She knows she shouldn't be there,knows how to play the game, and tells herself "You want to stop acting out. Speak up in Tuesday group therapy (but not too much and never about staffor how lousy this place was) and volunteer to clean up after the others."But she knows she is stuck. Connie spends more time "away" with Luciente, trying to develop a way out of her hell. Ultimately Connie makes her plan ofaction, and the book leaves us with our own questions about Connie's insanity and decisions.Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future  Price: 4.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart