I said, I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me, let me not feel I wasted any, let me not feel I forgot to love anyone I meant to love, that I forgot to give what I held in my hands, that I forgot to do some little piece of the work that wanted to come through. (complete poem; http://anotherhand.livejournal.com/15...)

She lives in Wellfleet on Cape Cod Massachusetts with her husband Ira Wood. Works


Novels
Going Down Fast 1969
Dance The Eagle To Sleep 1970
Small Changes 1973
Woman on the Edge of Time 1976
The High Cost of Living 1978
Vida 1980
Braided Lives 1982
Fly Away Home 1985
Gone To Soldiers 1988
Summer People 1989
He She And It (aka Body of Glass) 1991
The Longings of Women 1994
City of Darkness City of Light 1996
Storm Tide (novel)|Storm Tide 1998 (with Ira Wood)
Three Women 1999
The Third Child 2003
Sex Wars 2005


Poetry collections
Breaking Camp 1968
Hard Loving 1969
4-Telling ( with Emmett Jarrett Dick Lourie Robert Hershon) 1971
To Be of Use 1973
Living in the Open 1976
The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing 1978
The Moon is Always Female 1980
Circles on the Water Selected Poems 1982
Stone Paper Knife 1983
My Mother's Body 1985
Available Light 1988
Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now (ed. Piercy's poetry tends to be highly personal free verse and often addresses the same concern with feminist and social issues.

Marge Piercy (born March 31 1936) is an American poet novelist and social activist.