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marilyn hacker
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Great Pain, Great Pleasure: Here All Night, Nightshade, and Blazons
All three remind readers that what is imagined is not always real and the world is not as expected.
What to Read When You Are Struggling with What to Tell
Laura Esther Wolfson shares a reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, FOR SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING AS TRAIN CONDUCTORS.
This Most Vulnerable of Houses: Fady Joudah’s Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance
These poems, poised at the intersections of the material, the metaphorical, and the spiritual, fold into and out of one another as their boundaries dissolve with question after question.
Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
Where Are the Trees Going? by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Wendy Willis reviews Marilyn Hacker's translation of Vénus Khoury-Ghata's Where Are the Trees Going?" today in Rumpus Poetry.
A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 by Marilyn Hacker
Ann van Buren reviews Marilyn Hacker's A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Marilyn Hacker Is No Hack
Here’s hoping more people read the concise and precise interview about translation up on Guernica between Erica Wright and Marilyn Hacker. When we talk about someone being a prolific translator,…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Rumpus Books has been busy with tons of excellent reviews. Also, illustrations and cute book excerpts. Come check it out.
King of a Hundred Horsemen
As with much French poetry, the idée fixe of King of a Hundred Horsemen concerns the problematics of desire, and several of the passages are so euphonic in the original…