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Marge Piercy
Naissance (88 ans)
Nationalité Américaine
Pays de résidence États-Unis

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Biographie

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Piercy est née à Détroit, dans le Michigan,[1] fruit de l'union entre Bert (Bunnin) Piercy et Robert Piercy.[2][3] Après être sortie diplômée du Mackenzie High School, Marge fut la première de sa famille a s'inscrire dans une université, l'University of Michigan.[4][5] L'obtention du Hopwood Award pour "Fiction et Poésie" en 1957 lui permit de finir ses études universitaires et de passer quelque temps en France. Elle obtient une maitrise universitaire des lettres de Northwestern University et son premier recueil de poèmes, Breaking Camp, fut publié en 1968.

Étudiante lambda au cours des premières années, Piercy développa un vif intérêt pour les livres et la lecture lorsqu'elle attrapa une fièvre rhumatismale vers le milieu de son enfance et ne pouvait faire grand chose si ce n'est lire. "Les livres m'ont appris qu'il existait un autre monde, qu'il existait plein d'horizons sensiblement différents de celui que je pouvais voir".[6]

Piercy était une importante voix féministe dans la Nouvelle gauche (New Left) et Students for a Democratic Society.[7]

Écriture

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Piercy is author of more than seventeen volumes of poems, among them The Moon is Always Female (1980, considered a feminist classic) and The Art of Blessing the Day (1999), as well as fifteen novels, one play (The Last White Class, co-authored with her third and current husband Ira Wood), one collection of essays (Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt), one non-fiction book, and one memoir.[5] She contributed the pieces "The Grand Coolie Damn" and "Song of the fucked duck" to the 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan.[8]

Her novels and poetry often focus on feminist or social concerns, although her settings vary. While Body of Glass (published in the US as He, She and It) is a science fiction novel that won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, City of Darkness, City of Light is set during the French Revolution. Other of her novels, such as Summer People and The Longings of Women are set during the modern day. All of her books share a focus on women's lives.

Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) mixes a time travel story with issues of social justice, feminism, and the treatment of the mentally ill. This novel is considered a classic of utopian "speculative" science fiction as well as a feminist classic.[9] William Gibson has credited Woman on the Edge of Time as the birthplace of Cyberpunk. Piercy tells this in an introduction to Body of Glass. Body of Glass (He, She and It) (1991) postulates an environmentally ruined world dominated by sprawling mega-cities and a futuristic version of the Internet, through which Piercy weaves elements of Jewish mysticism and the legend of the Golem, although a key story element is the main character's attempts to regain custody of her young son.

Many of Piercy's novels tell their stories from the viewpoints of multiple characters, often including a first-person voice among numerous third-person narratives. Her World War II historical novel, Gone To Soldiers (1987) follows the lives of nine major characters in the United States, Europe and Asia. The first-person account in Gone To Soldiers is the diary of French teenager Jacqueline Levy-Monot, who is also followed in a third-person account after her capture by the Nazis.[10]

Piercy's poetry tends to be highly personal free verse and often addresses the same concern with feminist and social issues. Her work shows commitment to the dream of social change (what she might call, in Judaic terms, tikkun olam, or the repair of the world), rooted in story, the wheel of the Jewish year, and a range of landscapes and settings.

Activisme

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In 1977, Piercy became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).[11] WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

Vie privée

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She lives in Wellfleet with her husband, Ira Wood.[12][13]

Travaux

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Romans

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Nouvelles

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  • The Cost of Lunch, Etc., 2014

Collections de poèmes

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  • Breaking Camp, 1968
  • Hard Loving, 1969
  • "Barbie Doll", 1973
  • 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.), 1988; 1993
  • Mars and her Children, 1992
  • What are Big Girls Made Of, 1997
  • Early Grrrl, 1999.
  • The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems With a Jewish Theme, 1999
  • Colours Passing Through Us, 2003
  • The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010, 2012
  • Made in Detroit, 2015

Collected other

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  • "The Grand Coolie Damn" and "Song of the fucked duck" in Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, 1970, edited by Robin Morgan
  • The Last White Class, (play co-authored with Ira Wood), 1979
  • Parti-Colored Blocks For a Quilt, (essays), 1982
  • The Earth Shines Secretly: A book of Days, (daybook calendar), 1990
  • So You Want to Write, (non-fiction), 2001
  • Sleeping with Cats, (memoir), 2002
  • My Life, My Body (Outspoken Authors), (essays, poems & memoir), 2015

References

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  1. ↑ Modèle {{Lien web}} : paramètre « url » manquant. « Marge Piercy », Contemporary Authors Online, Gale (consulté le Date invalide (11, 2010))
  2. ↑ (en) Sue Walker, Ways of knowing : essays on Marge Piercy, Negative Capability, (ISBN 0685509648)
  3. ↑ (en) Marge Piercy, Sleeping with cats, William Morrow, (ISBN 0066211158)
  4. ↑ http://detroitcenter.umich.edu/hall-of-fame/marge-piercy
  5. ↑ a et b « Marge Piercy », The Poetry Foundation (consulté le )
  6. ↑ Don Swaim, « Audio Interview with Marge Piercy », Wired for Books, Ohio University (consulté le )
  7. ↑ (en) Kirkpatrick Sales, SDS, Random House, (ISBN 0394478894)
  8. ↑ « Sisterhood is powerful : an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement (Book, 1970) », [WorldCat.org] (consulté le )
  9. ↑ (en) Magali Michael, Feminism and the postmodern impulse " post-World War II fiction, State University of New York Press, (ISBN 0791430162)
  10. ↑ Marge Piercy, "Gone to Soldiers," Ballantine Books, 1987
  11. ↑ (en-US) « Associates | The Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press », sur www.wifp.org (consulté le )
  12. ↑ « Marge Piercy », Poets.org, American Academy of Poets (consulté le )
  13. ↑ (en) Ira Wood, You're married to her?, Leapfrog Press, (ISBN 9781935248255)
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