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A Stranger's Mirror New and Selected Poems 1994-2014 Author: Marilyn Hacker

ISBN: 9780393353310 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 304 Published: 20 September 2016 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 20.7 x 13.6 x 1.9 Description: Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in A Stranger's Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp. In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafes, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas: a refugee camp on the Turkish/Syrian border; contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet; intimate and international exchanges abbreviated on Skype-perhaps with gunfire in the background. These poems course through sonnets and ghazals, through sapphics and syllabics, through every historic-organic pattern, from renga to rubaiyat to Hayden Carruth's "paragraph". Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before, or who are writing as we read. A Stranger's Mirror is not meant only for poets. These poems belong to anyone who has sought in language an expression and extension of his ...

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