Piercy’s “The Book of Ruth and Naomi” explores the love between the two women.
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Ruth: Dreaming of a Sister of the Mind
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A Friendship Stronger Than Fear
As I spent a night in an emergency room, I thought of my wife, my mother, and this Piercy Ruth and Naomi poem.
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Walking the Road of Shards, Hands Joined
Marge Piercy’s poem about Naomi and Ruth’s emphasizes the power of female bonding.
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Half in Love with Easeful Death
In his haunting “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats imagines himself as a homesick Ruth standing “amid the alien corn.”
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