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Marilyn Hacker

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credit: Eleanor M. Hamilton	:: Marilyn Hacker teaches English at the City College of New York and lives in New York City and in Paris. She won the National Book Award for Presentation Piece and the Lenore Marshall Award, as well as a Lambda Literary Award, for Winter Numbers. She received the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize for Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
More on Marilyn Hacker - The Academy of American Poets' Marilyn Hacker page - Eros and the Lyric Imagination: Poems of Love: an exhibit curated by Marilyn Hacker - "About Marilyn Hacker: A Profile" by Rafael Campo, Ploughshares, 1996

	Desesperanto (2003) >>read "Desesperanto" and "Respite in a Minor Key"
	First Cities (2003)
	Squares and Courtyards (2000) >>read "The Boy"
	Selected Poems: 1965-1990 (1994) >>read "Rune of the Finland Woman"
	Winter Numbers (1994) >>read "Year's End"
	Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986) >>read "Five-thirty, little one, already light"

Also by Marilyn Hacker

- Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems
- Going Back to the River
- Assumptions
- Taking Notice
- Separations
- Presentation Piece

Translation

- She Says, by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- Birds and Bison, by Claire Malroux
- A House at the Edge of Tears, by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- Charlestown Blues, by Guy Goffette
- Nettles, by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- Edge, poems by Claire Malroux
- A Long Gone Sun, poems by Claire Malroux
- Here There Was Once a Country, poems by Venus Khoury-Ghata
- King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Etienne
- Nettles by Venus Khoury-Ghata
- Charlestown Blues by Guy Goffette