false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg 129636 2 Her seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions 124858 12 3 1980 The Moon Is Always Female: Poems total:332|5:132|4:120|3:75|2:4|1:1| 332 1374 441 32 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 18:03:24 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 13:42:42 -0800 2008 Marge Piercy

Learning to love differently is hard,
love with the hands wide open, love
with the doors banging on their hinges,
the cupboard unlocked, the wind
roaring and whimpering in the rooms
rustling the sheets and snapping the bli...more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 3 0 false Thu May 15 15:15:13 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 10:32:36 -0700 2008
Listening becomes eavesdropping and they
begin to feel my silence like a horse
in the diningroom. Gradually as I sit
my hair mats. Feathers stick up from
it, crow and eagle. My cheeks break
out into painted zigzag designs. My s...more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 13:05:38 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 10:52:00 -0700 2008
Here is an excerpt from Morning Athletes

"It is not the running I l...more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 3 0 false Fri Feb 27 18:18:52 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 18:20:17 -0800 2009 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 18:24:38 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 28 12:27:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jun 12 05:16:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 05:46:53 -0700 2009 Marge Piercy touches on so many aspects of what it means to be human, to be a woman and to experience life's array of emotions.]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 3 0 false Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 05:40:18 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 07:56:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Tue Apr 24 20:16:19 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 18:09:49 -0700 2007
We fall in love with strangers whose faces
radiate a fami...more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Tue Nov 03 12:21:52 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 12:22:32 -0800 2009 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 3 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 12:17:19 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 08:44:42 -0700 2009 http://bookconscious.wordpress.com/2009/...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 05 07:30:26 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 07:38:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 4 0 false Tue Sep 25 09:11:39 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 09:09:51 -0700 2007
This was one of the poets I read in early high school that really touched me. Her poems were really helpful in sorting certain things out in my teenage mind. I haven't read through it l...more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Jan 04 08:55:30 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 12:29:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 3 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 10:10:43 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 08:05:26 -0700 2008 The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems. A feminist and a chauvinist.]]> 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 03 15:03:01 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 15:04:33 -0700 2007 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 0 0 false Mon Mar 10 17:34:13 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 09 10:47:03 -0700 2009 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 4 0 false Wed Aug 08 07:59:47 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 20 06:31:25 -0700 2008 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Tue May 20 12:53:46 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 10:55:57 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 12:53:46 -0700 2008 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 4 0 false Sat Dec 15 21:16:24 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 21:16:24 -0800 2007 129636 0394738594 9780394738598 332 32 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223644774m/129636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129636.The_Moon_Is_Always_Female_Poems 5 0 false Mon Mar 17 20:39:16 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 20:40:25 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=129636