Lots of people are angry and just can't figure out where to aim their anger. We forget how to do anything political. Every generation has to start al… - Marge Piercy

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Lots of people are angry and just can't figure out where to aim their anger. We forget how to do anything political. Every generation has to start all over again-people have to figure out what's happened, but you have to start with two, three at a time, and organize. In the meantime, we need the poems-if not for the politicians then for the people the politicians ignore.

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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is a Jewish American poet, novelist, and social activist.

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Everything to me is connected-religion, the body, politics, our relation to each other and all other living beings, the environment. Life is of a piece. To me it's all one vision, and poetry is at the center.
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