Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. … - Marilyn Hacker
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. …
- Marilyn Hacker
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading… - Marilyn Hacker
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading…
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I … - Marilyn Hacker
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I …
You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse. - Marilyn Hacker
You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. - Marilyn Hacker
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equal… - Marilyn Hacker
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equal…
With, or despite our scars, we stay alive. - Marilyn Hacker
With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.
Who gets to choose what battle takes her down? - Marilyn Hacker
Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or… - Marilyn Hacker
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or…
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