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The prophets of old expressed themselves in powerful, soaring rhetoric, in inspired bombasts of eloquence, and yes – in poetry. So it’s no accident, that some of the people most appropriate for this 929 project on contemporary prophets are themselves poets! And poetesses. The feminist movement in particular has been graced (Paley) with an (Adrienne) rich array of (Marge) piercy-ing, prophetic voices that have contributed to this hard-won transformation to\u00a0a more just, inclusive world.
\nThis is the third in a series of feminist poets as contemporary prophets, working to change our consciousness and society.<\/p>\n

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In an autobiographical essay, novelist and poet Marge Piercy admonishes, \u201cPay sharp attention to that trouble looming, but don\u2019t let it taint your Sabbath celebration.\u201d This tension between celebration and disquietude marks Piercy\u2019s life and work. Grounded in feminism, political activism, and Jewish spirituality, more than thirty volumes comprise Piercy\u2019s oeuvre. Above all else, Piercy wishes her work to be \u201cuseful\u201d to people\u2019s inner and political lives. By articulating their experiences, poetry gives \u201cvalidation and dignity\u201d to the disenfranchised. Novels persuade readers \u201cto cross those borders of alienation and mistrust\u201d and empathize with \u201ccharacters whom the reader would refuse to know in ordinary life.\u201d Piercy\u2019s poetry fuses the political, domestic, and autobiographical spheres with imagery drawn from nature, sensual and dream memories, and Jewish mysticism. Her novels explore \u201cthe choices people make, out of their characters and their time and their class and their social circumstances.\u201d (Sara Horowitz, Marge Piercy, Jewish Women’s Archive)<\/p>\n

Quotes by Marge Piercy:<\/p>\n

“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”<\/p>\n

“We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.”<\/p>\n

“Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.”<\/p>\n

“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.<\/p>\n

“A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no justice we don’t make daily like bread and love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEconomy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
\nwatch who they beat and who they eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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