Names

Poems

By: Marilyn Hacker

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Paperback | 2 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Marilyn Hacker's Names is masterly and authoritative, in the same way as is the work of Auden, Rich, Fenton, and Brodsky. Her poems develop a dialogue with other voices - Anna Akhmatova, Mahmoud Darwish, Kateb Yacine, Hayden Carruth - as well as with contemporary writers, Anglophone and Francophone, and others who deserve 'naming' and remembrance as diasporic world citizens. Hacker convinces us of the authenticity of a world as it exists in language, through mastery, delight, desire, passion and wit. The wit is sexual and rakish, the passion humane and dense, and the delight is in the mastery that is formal yet acrobatically flexible and free-spirited, often breathtaking. Here are poems of desire and loss, sickness and death, laments that retain their vigor through sheer passion for those being mourned. The passion courses through sonnets, terza rima, ghazals, Sapphics, syllabics, Celtic forms, and through every possible historic-organic pattern.

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"Hacker will be remembered for her instinct to balance what's fraught with what's reassuring. Hence her nimble, graceful yoking of war, exile, and the persistence of human hatred with our desire to see sunrise and sunset, to tear a bite of bread from the loaf." -- Marilyn Krysl - Women's Review of Books

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