"Letter to the unknown woman across the street, I "Curtains, blinds, draperies, shades, no, nothing Madame, to conceal from your Cyclops eye in the shadows from which it spies on me this long pale body, false corpse tired out with debauchery, which is swooning too before your balcony, with your drying stockings and scanties of a nun at bay poisonous flowers for a lonely man whom death panics, draws erect, demarrows in the night, riveted to your white thighs. Readers who denounce most contemporary French poetry as self-referential experimentation, word games,...
"Letter to the unknown woman across the street, I "Curtains, blinds, draperies, shades, no, nothing Madame, to conceal from your Cyclops eye ...
This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first acquaintance to the experience of their parting.
This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first ac...
Here is a rich collection of work from five books by one of America's most controversial poets. Marilyn Hacker's poems have been praised for their technical virtuosity, forthright feminism, political acuity, and unabashed eroticism.
Here is a rich collection of work from five books by one of America's most controversial poets. Marilyn Hacker's poems have been praised for their tec...
In her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon.
In her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the fe...
Moving back and forth with the rhythm of the writer s life, from Paris to New York, from the 1990s to the 1940s, Squares and Courtyards reminds us that, to take action, it is necessary to take notice."
Moving back and forth with the rhythm of the writer s life, from Paris to New York, from the 1990s to the 1940s, Squares and Courtyards reminds us tha...
The wonder of Marilyn Hacker's poems...is that she insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice. The result, again and again, is a poem of intense intimacy, beauty and authority."--W. S. Merwin
The wonder of Marilyn Hacker's poems...is that she insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes th...
Marilyn Hacker's voice is unique in its intelligence, urbanity, its deployment of an elegiac humor, its weaving of literary sources into the fabric and vocabulary of ordinary life, its archaeology of memory. Desesperanto refines the themes of loss, exile, and return that have consistently informed her work. The title itself is a wordplay combining the Spanish word esperanto, signifying "hope," and the French desespoir, meaning "to lose heart." Des-esperanto, then, is a universal language of despair--despair of the possibility of a universal language. As always in...
Marilyn Hacker's voice is unique in its intelligence, urbanity, its deployment of an elegiac humor, its weaving of literary sources into the fabric...
Lebanese writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry's communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic sequences. Here brilliantly translated from the French by poet Marilyn Hacker, the English-speaking reader has rare insight into another world, another dimension.
Lebanese writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetr...
Gathers 25 years' work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets in English. This title contains work from eight books, including an excerpt from the erotic verse novel "Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons", and a work written in the shadow of
Gathers 25 years' work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets in English. This title contains work from eight books, including an excerpt from...
