Names [Hardcover]

Marilyn Hacker (Author)

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Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: WW Norton; 1 edition (Oct 27 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393072185
ISBN-13: 978-0393072181
Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 16.1 x 1.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 249 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,636,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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, she convinces us to believe in a world made possible by language prescient, playful, polyglot, and often breathtaking. from Ghazal: The Beloved: Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved: when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved? Your every declaration is suspect. That was, at least, the departing gloss of the beloved. Were you merely a servant of the state or (now you give the coin a toss) of the beloved? How pure you were, resistant in an orchard. Peace with justice: the cause of the beloved.