- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton; Reprint edition (Mar 1 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393312259
- ISBN-13: 978-0393312256
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #504,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Inspired by passion for one of her poetry studentsRachel of the "leonine hair"Hacker poured out this extraordinary, long sonnet sequence, with an occasional villanelle thrown in, over the course of their yearlong, mostly long-distance love affair. Since the lovers are often apart, the book is as much a personal diary cum colorful travelogue (during this time Hacker commutes with her young daughter between Manhattan's Upper West Side, Paris and Venice) as it is an account of lust, ecstasy, yearning, jealousy and betrayal. These sonnets are graphic, colloquial and immediate; Hacker's command of the straitening, fixed form, which often seems archaic and empty when used by other poets, is a stunning achievement.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Don't let the abstract title mislead you. This lengthy sequence of formal, rhymed sonnets laced with villanelles chronicles an obsessive lesbian love affair with a direct, colloquial, fleshly passion ("We'll do just fine when we can jam together/the necessary parts"). Against the chic scenery of Paris, Manhattan, and Provincetown, Hacker recounts states of separation and sexual longing focused so tightly on the beloved that the whirl of cafes, bars, and shopping sprees could not seem more superfluous. At times the series slows to self-indulgencecatalogs of lunches eaten, clothes wornbut Hacker's impressive technical skills, combined with the sensitivity of her subject and her straightforward diction, prevent the book from becoming the flat diary a lesser poet might have written.Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An amazing mix of emotions,
This review is from: Love Death And The Changing Of The Seasons (Paperback)
Hacker's sonnets are all bound together by the woundings of love, passion, & human nature. Each of them are eloquent--giving both painful & humorous insight into her personal life: her wildly open relationship with her daughter & the romantic affair she has with her student. Using sexually blunt & vivid language, Hacker's poems envelope the paradoxes of aging & that lingering, bittersweet taste of love.
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Life-Changing, Sexy, Alive...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Love Death And The Changing Of The Seasons (Paperback)
A pregnant pause between word three and four of one of these sonnets changed my life. Hacker writes an accessible, witty, beautiful, tender, sexy masterpiece (a novel, really) which has become, since its pub date, a folk rite-of-passage for many readers (even non-poetry lovers), a pole-raising standard for other poets, and the source for many phrases worth remembering: from "age is not the muddle of the matter" to the rhyming of "fit of pique" with "geste heroique." This is a page-turning classic -- erudite, lyrical, and peopled by women one would want to know. A smart person's tour de force!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beginning to end of a love affair in sonnet form?!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Love Death And The Changing Of The Seasons (Paperback)
One of my favorite books of poetry ever. No matter the gender of my lover, this is the book I read when things are going great...and when they fall apart. Sexy, deep, and gorgeous language. I'm always grateful she's around.
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