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Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York. Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, [1] Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990).
Marilyn Hacker is an award-winning poet best known for formal poems that mix high culture and colloquial speech. Over a career spanning nearly 50 years, Hacker has established herself as a preeminent voice in the tradition of Robert Lowell and Adrienne Rich.
Apr 27, 2023 · Marilyn Hacker has dealt greatly with the expanse of language across her prizewinning body of work. She started early, studying romance languages as a teenager, and over the years added translations of French and more recently Arabic verse to over fifteen poetry collections in her name.
Marilyn Hacker - Born in New York City on November 27, 1942, Marilyn Hacker was the only child of a working-class Jewish couple, each the first in their families to attend college.
She married science-fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, despite his homosexuality, the year before her graduation and left NYU, taking jobs in commercial editing. Hacker eventually returned to...
Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) is a poet whose work combines the political and the personal, the traditional and the radical, to startling effect. She is a New Yorker, born in the Bronx to Jewish parents who were the first in their respective families to go to university.
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Marilyn Hacker brings together a sophisticated and urbane intelligence, technical and verbal virtuosity, and a level of wit that is not always found in such a committed feminist and lesbian...
