Title: Early grrrl : the early poems of Marge Piercy.
Authors: Piercy, Marge.
Publisher: Leapfrog Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Feminism Poetry; Women Poetry.
Abstract: This collection of new poems and old favorites, some long out of print and many never collected in Piercy's previous books is titled in homage to the 'Grrrl' phenomenon - a contemporary expression of the pride and passion of young women's lives exploding in books and zines, concerts, films, and the internetwhich in its honesty, accessibility and humor embodies the spirit of the poet's early work. Early Grrrl presents the bold and passionate ecological and political verse for which Piercy is well known alongside poems celebrating the sensual pleasures of gardening and cooking and sex; funny poems about cats and New Year's Eve and warring boom boxes; vulnerable poems in which a young working class woman from the Midwest takes stock of herself and the limits of her world.
Contents: The meaningful exchange -- Five thousand miles -- The summer invasion, and the fall -- Nothing you can have -- Archipelago -- The first salad of March -- Exodus -- Ask me for anything else -- What is permitted -- Short season -- Ghosts -- The new novel -- Women of letters -- The token woman -- The clearest joy -- Make me feel it -- Sage and rue -- River road, high toss -- Paradise Hollow -- Kneeling here, I feel good -- Sixteen in '53 -- The big one -- There is no known way to tickle a clam -- Two higher mammals -- Beautiful weeper -- The legacy -- A short dark turning -- For a Brazilian 'bandit' -- The box -- January thaw -- Phases of the sun -- Lies -- For Inez Garcia -- Easy -- Joy as a point -- The fisherman -- Your eyes are hard, and other surprises -- I still feel you -- Missing person -- Song of the nudge -- This is a poem for you -- Reopening -- Rain falls on loannina -- To grow on.