About Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books, including Winter Numbers, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of The Nation magazine and the Academy of American Poets in 1995, Selected Poems, which was awarded the Poets' Prize in 1996, and the verse no novel, Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons. . Her most recent book, Squares and Courtyards, was published by W.W. Norton in 2000. A Long-Gone Sun, her translation of Claire Malroux's poem-narrative of W.W. II, was published by The Sheep Meadow Press in 2000. Here There Was Once a Country,, her translations of the poems of the Franco Lebanese writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata, was published in 2001 by Oberlin College Press. She Says, another translated collection of Vénus Khoury-Ghata's poems, in a bilingual edition, will be published by Graywolf Press in the spring of 2003. Marilyn Hacker's own new collection, Desesperanto, was published in 2003 by W.W. Norton. She lives in New York and Paris.
Publications
BOOKS
Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002, W.W. Norton, 2003
First Cities: Poems 1960-1979: W.W. Norton, 2003
She Says, translations of poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Graywolf Press, 2003
Here There Was Once a County, translations of poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Oberlin College Press, Oberlin, OH. 2001
Squares and Courtyards: W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 2000
A Long-Gone Sun, a translation of poems by Claire Malroux, The Sheep Meadow Press, N.Y. 2000
Edge, translations of poems by Claire Malroux, Wake Forest University Press, North Carolina, 1996
Winter Numbers, W.W. Norton & Co., 1994
Selected Poems, 1965-1990, W.W. Norton & Co., 1994
CRITICISM, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
"Marie Ponsot," Encyclopedia of American Literature, Oxford University Press, 2003
"Vénus Khoury-Ghata: L'arabe infusant son miel et sa folie dans la langue française" Aujourd'hui Poème, Paris, March 2002
"Guy Goffette and Claire Malroux: Two Contemporary French Poets," Kestrel, Spring 2002
"The Sonnet, An Exaltation of Forms," Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes, Eds. University of Michigan Press, 2002
Preface to Here There Was Once a Country, poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker, Oberlin College Press, 2001
Preface to A Long-Gone Sun, poem-narrative by Claire Malroux, translated by Marilyn Hacker, The Sheep Meadow Press, 2000
"Too Soon to Quit, Too Late to Cry: Wanda Coleman's Bathwater Wine" The Nation, Oct. 1999, and in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Winter 2000
"Journals," Living On the Margins: Women Writers on Cancer, Hilda Raz, Ed.,Persea Books 1999
"What's American About American Form?" HeART Quarterly, Summer 1999, and in Crossroads: Journal of the Poetry Society of America, Autumn, 1999
"The Sonnet As A Wild Woman's Blues: On Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Rites for Cousin Vit." Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, #61, Fall 1999
"Faith and Works: Marilyn Nelson's The Fields of Praise" The Women's Review of Books, Wellesley, MA., May 1998
"Laughter in the Dark," review of Signs of Life by Joan Schenkar, The Village Voice, N.Y. April 1998
"A Few Cranky Paragraphs on Form and Content," Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry, Yopie Prins & Maeera Shreiber, Eds., Cornell University Press, 1997
"The Classic Poem: Rukeyser"s 'Nine Poems for the Unborn Child," Poetry Review, London, Fall, 1997
"Tectonic Shifts: Alicia Ostriker's The Crack in Everything" The Nation, New York, N.Y., May 1997
"Marilyn Hacker: An Interview on Form," conducted by Annie Finch, American Poetry Review Philadelphia PA., May/June 1996
"An Interview with Marilyn Hacker," conducted by Suzanne Gardinier, AWP Chronicle, Vol. 28 #5, 1996
ANTHOLOGIES: POETRY
The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002, Joseph Parisi, Ed., Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2002
The Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry, Mary Ann Caws, Ed., Yale University Press, 2002 (translations of Nicole Brossard, Marie Etienne, Guy Goffette, Anne Hébert, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Hédi Kaddour, Claire Malroux and Salah Stétié and Habib Tengour) The Faber Book of 20th Century French Poems, Stephen Romer, Ed., Faber & Faber, London 2002 (translations of Hédi Kaddour, Guy Goffette and André Velter)
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies, Sandra M. Gilbert, Ed., W.W. Norton, 2001
The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Phillis Levin, Ed., Penguin Books, 2001
Love Speaks its Name, J.D. McClatchy, Ed., Everyman Library, 2001
The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, Susan Aizenberg and Erin Belieu, Eds., Columbia University Press, 2001
The Making of a Poem, Eavan Boland & Mark Strand, Eds, W.W. Norton, 2000
The World In Us, Elena Giorgiou & Michael Lassell Eds, St. Martin's Press, 2000
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Sydney Lea & Stanley
Plumly, Eds., University Presses of New England, 1999
Jewish American Poetry: Tradition, Practice and Commentary, Eric Selinger, Ed., University Presses of New England, 1999
The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII, Wm. Henderson, Series Ed., The Pushcart Press, N.Y. 1999
The Norton Introduction to Poetry,7th Edn. J. Paul Hunter, Ed. W.W. Norton & Co., 1998
The American Voice Anthology of Poetry, Frederick Smock, Ed., University of Kentucky Press, 1998
The Best American Poetry,1998, Eds. John Hollander and David Lehman, Collier Books, N.Y. 1998
Generations: Poems Between Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons, M. Hart & J. Loader, Eds., Penguin Books, London and New York, 1998
The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary American Jewish Poetry, Hilda Raz. Ed., University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing: 5th Edn., E.V. Roberts & H. E. Jacobs, Eds. Prentice Hall, 1998
Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out, Kenny Fries, Ed., Penguin/Plume 1997
Every Woman I Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers On Their Mothers: Catherine Reid & Holly Iglesias, Eds., Cleis Press, 1997
Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading, Lee A. Jacobus, Ed., Prentice Hall, 1996
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, J.D. McClatchy, Ed., Random House, N.Y. 1996 (translations of poems by Claire Malroux)
Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism :M. Jarman & D. Mason, Eds. Story Line Press 1996
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 2nd Edn. Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, Eds., W.W. Norton & Co., 1996
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