Early Grrrl: The Early Poems of Marge Piercy Book

	Preface
	The meaningful exchange	3
	Five thousand miles	4
	The summer invasion, and the fall	5
	Nothing you can have	8
	Archipelago	11
	The first salad of March	14
	Exodus	15
	Ask me for anything else	17
	What is permitted	19
	Short season	21
	Ghosts	23
	The new novel	25
	Women of letters	26
	The token woman	33
	The clearest joy	35
	Make me feel it	36
	Sage and rue	38
	River road, High Toss	40
	Paradise Hollow	41
	Kneeling here, I feel good	43
	Sixteen in '53	44
	The big one	45
	There is no known way to tickle a clam	46
	Two higher mammals	47
	Beautiful weeper	48
	The legacy	49
	A short dark turning	50
	For a Brazilian 'Bandit'	52
	The box	54
	January thaw	56
	Phases of the sun	58
	Lies	59
	For Inez Garcia	62
	Easy	67
	Joy as a point	68
	The fisherman	69
	Your eyes are hard, and other surprises	70
	I still feel you	71
	Missing person	72
	Song of the nudge	73
	This is a poem for you	74
	Reopening	75
	Rain falls on loannina	76
	To grow on	77
	A kid on her way	81
	How you stare	82
	Dismissal	83
	Lapsed	84
	Lipsky on Ninth Avenue	86
	The miracle	87
	Clinic hallway	88
	Sunday evening	89
	The simplification	90
	August	91
	August, submerging	92
	Night of the bear and polar light	93
	Exactly how I pursue you	94
	Running toward R	95
	Nocturne	99
	Face in the mirror	100
	Committee hearings, 1952	102
	Lil's monody	103
	Black solstice	105
	October	106
	Storm outside, storm inside	107
	The ceremony	108
	Don plays Mozart	110
	Smoke in the wind	112
	Woman with suitcase	114
	Grand tour 1957	115
	The well-preserved man	121
	Nightcrawler	123
	Red brick monument	124
	Dream of order at the carnival	126
	How easy is forgetfulness	128
	Eye contact	129
	On technique	130
	For a radical poet	131
	The music wars	133
	Between the end and the acceptance of the end	135
	The air like stained glass cuts me	136
	Wise dreaming	138
	Man hung on himself	139
	I vow to sleep through it	141
	Midsummer night's stroll	143
	Turn about	144
	I have offended	146
	The long drought	147
	The correct method of worshipping cats	149
	The name of that country is lonesome	150
	Thou shalt not complain about anything I might have to fix	152
	Always unsuitable	154
	A note about the author	157