Marilyn Hacker

Biography

Marilyn Hacker is the author of more than fourteen books of poems, including most recently Calligraphies (Norton, 2023). She has received several honors, including the Robert Fagles Translation Prize for Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen (FSG, 2008), the Bernard F. Conners Prize from the Paris Review, and the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America.

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POETRY / Winter 2009

A Braid of Garlic

By Marilyn Hacker

Aging women mourn while they go to market,
buy fish, figs, tomatoes, enough today to
feed the wolf asleep underneath the table
who wakes from what dream?

ESSAYS / Spring 2006

The Mimesis of Thought: On Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

By Marilyn Hacker

Rich’s body of work establishes, among other things, an intellectual autobiography, which is interesting not as the narrative of one life (which it’s not) and still less as intimate divulgence, but as the evolution and revolutions of an...

POETRY / Winter 2006

Ghazal: Waiting

By Marilyn Hacker