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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 them both speak with the same voice. The result, again and again, is a poem of intense intimacy, beauty and authority."--W. S. Merwin
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is the author of two collaborative books, twenty-two translations of French and Francophone poets, and nineteen volumes of poems, including, most recently, Calligraphies. 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 Manhattan and Paris.
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