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

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Description for A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 Hardcover. A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 243 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.

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 along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp.

In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafés, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas: a refugee camp on ... Read more

These poems course through sonnets and ghazals, through sapphics and syllabics, through every historic-organic pattern, from renga to rubaiyat to Hayden Carruth’s "paragraph”. Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before, or who are writing as we read.

A Stranger’s Mirror is not meant only for poets. These poems belong to anyone who has sought in language an expression and extension of his or her engagement with the world—far off or up close as the morning’s first cup of tea.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393244649
SKU
V9780393244649
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-20

About Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen volumes of poems. Her honors include the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She lives in Paris.

Reviews for A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014
"Stands as a textured but unified testament to [Hacker's] output over the past two decades."
Publishers Weekly "[Hacker] remains an undisputed master of formal verse... one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today. No other poet manages the casual pyrotechnics she accomplishes in form."
Carol Muske-Duke - Los Angeles Times

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


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