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Marilyn Hacker
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 Squares
and Courtyards : Poems by
Marilyn HackerA ninth volume of
poems by one of our most important poets, winner of the National
Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, and the Poets' Prize, and
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Squares and
Courtyards moves with the rhythm of the writer's life, from Paris
to New York, between the poles of youth and age, sickness and
health, life and death. Sequences celebrate the community of
friends, the courage of those living with HIV and cancer. This
book is at once elegiac and a song of praise to language's power
to remind us that, to take action, it is necessary to take notice. "Marilyn
Hacker's poems embrace the historical as well as the personal past
with a narrative and lyrical force that redeems — within their
elegant but seemingly casual structures — the losses, the
absences, the friendships that death takes. The world becomes more
luminous, word by word. Hacker is one of our best singers — by
turns elegiac and fierce, sweet and witty. With each new
collection her voice grows richer, more resonant, sorrowing and
lovely." -- Julia Alvarez
About
the Author
Marilyn Hacker lives in New York City and Paris. She teaches
English at Hofstra University. She is the author of eight other
books of poems, including Winter Numbers, Selected Poems:
1965-1990, and Love, Death, and the Changing of Seasons.
 Selected
Poems : 1965-1990 by
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker's
dark, complex poetic vision has a strange, often formal, beauty to
it. Yet, when she writes in Living in the Moment: "I
try to be a woman I could love./ I am probably wrong, asking/ you
to stay . . ." one feels a very elemental tension between
hope and fear, self-loathing and the need for love. It's a tangled
inner life that Hacker is opening up for our inspection, and these
are beautiful and brave poems. (Amazon.com)
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A Profile by Rafael Campo, Ploughshares
Spring 1996
Excerpt:
Award-winning poet and renowned editor, lesbian
activist and literary formalist, native New Yorker and expatriate
American in Paris--Marilyn Hacker, who is all these identities and
more, gloriously defies all attempts at easy categorization.
"It's not a question of an issue," she says in
describing the relationship between her art and her convictions,
"but a question of the people I know who are close to me, who
are health-care workers or living with illnesses, or the
neighbors, housed and homeless, I pass on the street, or the
grocery store that goes out of business where I've bought my salad
and broccoli every day for the past five years. All of those may
be reflected or transformed in my work..."
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This page hosts an excerpt from Paragraphs
from a Day-Book
Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books,
including Presentation Piece, which received the National
Book Award in 1975; Winter Numbers, which received a Lambda
Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of The Nation
magazine and the Academy of American Poets, both in 1995; and the
verse novel, Love, Death and the Changing of Seasons.
Wake Forest University Press published Edge, her
translations of the French poet Claire Malroux, in 1996. Her
Selected Poems was awarded the Poets' Prize and her new
book, Squares and Courtyards, will be published by W.W.
Norton in January 2000...
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By Marilyn Hacker, Poetry
Daily
This site hosts an excerpt from Squares
and Courtyards : Poems , Copyright ©
2000 by Marilyn Hacker.
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