Marilyn L Hacker

Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems

Selected Poems: 1965-1990

Squares and Courtyards

Desesperanto: Poems 1999 2002

Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons

Selected Poems: 1965-1990

Winter Numbers: Poems

Squares and Courtyards

Diaspo/Renga

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Jewish Studies. In 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, Palestinian- American poet Deema Shehabi and Jewish-American poet Marilyn Hacker started a correspondence. It took the form of responding to each other's poems. They continued their poetic dialogue by ema...

First Cities: Collected Early Poems 1960-1979

The first three books of one of our best poets, including her National Book Award-winning volume Presentation Piece, plus Separations and Taking Notice. 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...

Selected Poems 1965-1990

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. Included are selections from Hacker's first book, Presentation Piec...

Names: Poems

“[Hacker] powerfully brings her formal mastery and her political sensibility together.”―American Poet In Names, Marilyn Hacker juxtaposes glimpses of contemporary lives with dialogues undertaken in signal poetic voices. Using her signature wit, passion, and mastery of received and invented forms, sh...

A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014

Longlisted for the National Book Award A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets.Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker’s generous selections in A Stranger’s Mirror include work from four previous volumes alon...

Winter Numbers: Poems

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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.

Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons

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.

Preludes and Fugues (FIELD Translation Series)

Stunning new work by this inimitable French master

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York. ...