Marilyn Hacker, Author . Norton $23.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-05418-7
Combining lucid, almost chatty autobiography, outspoken progressive politics and a casual mastery of elaborate forms, Hacker's work has won admiration for poems about city life, and (more recently) for translations of Francophone poets. All...
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Marilyn Hacker, Author . Norton $23.95 (105p) ISBN 978-0-393-07218-1
Hacker's virtuosic rhymes, syllabics and other traditional devices give discipline and elegance to her learned, yet direct, clear, personal, work: her daily life in Paris and New York, her affection for other writers, her lesbian identity and...
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Marilyn Hacker, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-31373-4
This seventh volume of poems by NBA winner Hacker was nominated for an NBCC. (Oct.)
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Marilyn Hacker, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-03675-6
Tracing Hacker's (Assumptions) poetic development here will make an intriguing journey for both new and familiar readers of this leader of the feminist/lesbian poetry movement. Hacker's signature style-passionate, technically deft-is spotlighted in...
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Marilyn Hacker, Author Arbor House $0 (212p) ISBN 978-0-87795-817-8
Inspired by passion for one of her poetry studentsRachel of the ""leonine hair''Hacker poured out this extraordinary, long sonnet sequence, with an occasional villanelle thrown in, over the course of their yearlong, mostly long-distance love affair.
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Marilyn Hacker, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (95p) ISBN 978-0-393-03674-9
Listen to a poet's query: ``Who dies well?'' In her seventh book, Hacker considers the too-familiar deaths of her friends from cancer and AIDS, and those of her friends' children (``morose, unanswerable, the list/ of thirty-and forty-year-old...
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Marilyn Hacker. Univ. of Michigan, $29.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-0-472-05115-1
Comprised of reprinted and revised essays on established luminaries as well as voices less familiar to Anglophone readers, the latest in this series presents over two decades of Hacker's engagement with American poetry and French literature in...
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Marilyn Hacker. Norton, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-24464-9
Composed of new poems, work from four previous collections, and a handful of translations, this third volume of selected work from Hacker (Names) stands as a textured but unified testament to her output over the past two decades. Lyric meditations...
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Marilyn Hacker, Author, Hacker, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (88p) ISBN 978-0-393-04830-8
Dailiness and disease fuel the award-winning Hacker's ninth collection of poetry: a grim, painstaking survey of the effects of cancer and HIV on the author's wide circle of loved ones. Hacker conveys a strength of will with an evenness of tone, one...
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Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr. Milkweed, $16 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-57131-551-9
In the spring of 2020, Hacker (A Stranger’s Mirror) and Naïr began exchanging stanzas that took the shape of a renga, the Japanese poetic form that weaves multiple authors in dialogue. These stanzas, which alternate between the two poets and between
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Marilyn Hacker. Norton, $26.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-324-03646-3
These formally ambitious and energetic poems by Hacker (A Different Distance) feature a progression of sonnet crowns, ghazals, sapphics, pantoums, and linked haiku that carry the reader through a litany of maladies. These include the pandemic,...
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