Marilyn Hacker

Author · 21 books

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, critic, and professor of English. Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.

Books

A Different Distance

A Stranger's Mirror

Assumptions

Blazons

Calligraphies

Desesperanto

Essays on Departure

First Cities

Going Back to the River

Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons

Names

Poetry to Heal Your Blues

Presentation Piece

Selected Poems 1965-1990

Separations

Squares and Courtyards

Taking Notice

The Hang-glider's Daughter

The New Fuck You

Winter Numbers

[Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?]