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.
"...Desesperanto, features rhyming meditations on multiculturalism, abortion rights, homophobia, and Palestinian suffering... wrenching yet exquisite..."Jane Yeh, The Times Literary Supplement "The voice that emerges in these sad,grey lines is calm and cool and sure of itself." Time Out New York "The poems in this volume speak of loss, pain, grief, separation, betrayal, in a dazzling variety of strict forms, both traditional and invented... These are poems to listen to intently, to read and re-read; poems to live with." Mary MacRae, Magma
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