Great Plains Patchwork

Coffey, Marilyn

History

Iowa State Pr

Marcella

Charterhouse

Marcella has stumbled into puberty. She’s grown too old to play with toys but is still too young for boys. Songs, Christianity, and curiosity at her changing body fill her time. She practices the piano, talks to her God and, alone in her bedroom, she explores. “At first she didn’t allow it very often, only once every two or three nights, but gradually she let herself...oh, every night, after she’d said her prayers.” Then she finds out there’s a name for what she does, that it’s a bad thing to do, and that God prohibits it, even though it feels so delightful... Marcella is the candid and unrestrained story of a school girl and her emotions, of the war of an innocent morality with a grown-up sexuality, plus all the bewilderment of dread, inexperience, and shame she experiences as she battles her way into womanhood.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Omega Cottonwood Press

Marilyn Coffey in her libidinous book PRICKSONGS recreates her youthful freedom from sexual taboos. Her steamy poems are as crazy, diverse, risque, and turbulent as The Sixties when she wrote them.he was slight ofbuild and/ liked/ tohave his ear bittenMake Love, Not War advised the slogan, and she did.‘memberwhen you strummed melike a bass violin the bath tub?Some funny, some passionate, some provocative,Coffey’s poems will sweep you back to a decadewhen gaudily painted Flower Power buses roamed the streets when mini skirts, bell-bottoms, and love beads adorned bodies when The Pill and sexual liberation were new.Named after her Pushcart Prize winning poem, Pricksongs is Coffey’s second poetry book. She has also published a biography, Mail-Order Kid; an essay collection, Great Plains Patchwork; and Marcella, the first novel written in English that used masturbation as part of its main theme. Coffey’s work has been read in Canada, England, Australia, Denmark, Japan and India.

Pricksongs

Poetry

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