Marge
Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan.During the 1960s, Piercy was an
organizer in political movements like the Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) and the movement against the war in Vietnam, an engagement
which has shaped her work in myriad ways.Perhaps most importantly,
though, has been Piercy’s sustained involvement with feminism, Marxism
and environmental thought. An extremely prolific writer, Piercy has
published 17 volumes of poetry and 17 novels.
Marge Piercy's poetry is a revelation of the internal and imaginative life.She shocks the readers into complexities of womanhood and breakdowns,psychic awareness and order.Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar point out that 'these phenomena of interiorization mark the women writers' struggle for artistic self-definition.'Piercy's poetry is about death,rage,hatred,blood, wounds,cuts,deformities,stings,fever-there is devil's plenty with which she hardly reconciles.Her poetry reveals a hurting,grinding,grating joy which comes from the perfection of the descriptive language that overcomes a hesitating spirit.The expressive violence of the language comes from a mind speeding along madly,yet she commands an uncanny control of language,sound,rhythm and imagery that is the opposite of mental disorder.The symbols and metaphors she uses have the stamp of femaleness about them.The biological imagery in her poetry is useful to understand women's situation in society from a female angle.
The quest for the self and the fragmentation of the self are central to the poetry of Marge Piercy.Most of her personae undergo disintegration of the self:each self split into the woman and the artist.The conflict between split selves is a common motif in her poetry.Madness as a theme and point of view shaping poetic technique is the hallmark of her poetry.The adaptation of madness as poetic material which reveals a wide range of experiences and responses is felt in the individual voices of the poet and her personae who are at once familiar and strange to the poet.Susan Sontag observes that madness symbolizes the predicament of a modern writer.In Piercy's poetry ,madness is a means of self -realisation.
Marge Piercy has the visionary insight by which she rewrites the history of the female.She narrates the story of a woman poet in such a manner that changes her life as well as those of others.
Marge Piercy's poetry is a revelation of the internal and imaginative life.She shocks the readers into complexities of womanhood and breakdowns,psychic awareness and order.Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar point out that 'these phenomena of interiorization mark the women writers' struggle for artistic self-definition.'Piercy's poetry is about death,rage,hatred,blood, wounds,cuts,deformities,stings,fever-there is devil's plenty with which she hardly reconciles.Her poetry reveals a hurting,grinding,grating joy which comes from the perfection of the descriptive language that overcomes a hesitating spirit.The expressive violence of the language comes from a mind speeding along madly,yet she commands an uncanny control of language,sound,rhythm and imagery that is the opposite of mental disorder.The symbols and metaphors she uses have the stamp of femaleness about them.The biological imagery in her poetry is useful to understand women's situation in society from a female angle.
The quest for the self and the fragmentation of the self are central to the poetry of Marge Piercy.Most of her personae undergo disintegration of the self:each self split into the woman and the artist.The conflict between split selves is a common motif in her poetry.Madness as a theme and point of view shaping poetic technique is the hallmark of her poetry.The adaptation of madness as poetic material which reveals a wide range of experiences and responses is felt in the individual voices of the poet and her personae who are at once familiar and strange to the poet.Susan Sontag observes that madness symbolizes the predicament of a modern writer.In Piercy's poetry ,madness is a means of self -realisation.
Marge Piercy has the visionary insight by which she rewrites the history of the female.She narrates the story of a woman poet in such a manner that changes her life as well as those of others.
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