No other poet of this generation has more consistently identified
herself with the political and social movements of her own times, writes
Margaret Atwood in the New York Times Book Review. Recited in speeches
by Gloria Steinem and Howard Zinn, and in rallies from coast to coast,
Piercy's political poems have become anthems for social change. But to
locate these poems, Piercy fans have had to hunt through 16 different
volumes. Louder, We Can't Hear You, is an audio CD collection of 30 of
her most popular political poems with an accompanying eight panel
fold-out.In favorites such as To Be of Use, written during the Vietnam
War; For Strong Women, and The Low Road, during the women's movement; No
One Came Home, an elegy for 9-11; and Choices, written in reaction to
Laura Bush's White House invitation and included in the Poets Against
the War anthology, Piercy confronts the social issues of our times for a
new generation of activists, in words that have become catchphrases,
according to Erica Jong. Poem after poem has that kind of authority,
power, and verbal brilliance.For anyone interested in what's been
happening on the cutting edge during the past two decades, says The New
York Times, she's clearly essential reading. Louder, We Can't Hear You
is not only the first collection of Marge Piercy's political poems, but
her first audio collection in twenty years; truly an historical
document.Marge Piercy is the author of 17 novels including the national
best-sellers Gone to Soldiers, The Longings of Women and the modern
classics, Woman on the Edge of Time and He, She and It. She is the
author of 16 books of poetry, including the latest Colors Passing
Through Us (Knopf ) and The Moon is Always Female, which has sold
100,000 copies.
