Essays on departure : new and selected poems / Marilyn Hacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hacker, Marilyn, 1942-

Series:

Oxford poets (Manchester, England)

Oxford poets

Language:

English

Physical Description:

180 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2006.

Summary:

Gathering 25 years work by one of America's most elegant and pertinent poets, this title contains work from eight books, including an excerpt from the erotic verse novel 'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons', and a work written in the shadow of hegemonic empire.

Contents:

from Taking notice (1980): Pantoum ; Feeling and form

from Assumptions (1985): from Open windows ; Graffitti from the Gare Saint-Manqué ; Part of a true story ; Rune of the Finland woman ; The little robber girl gets on in the wide world ; Ballad of ladies lost and found

from Love, death and the changing of the seasons (1986): Runaways Café I ; Runaways Café II ; Wagers ; 'O little one, this longing is the pits' ; 'Well, damn, it's a relief to be a slut' ; 'Didn't Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?' ; 'Though sometimes now we sound like fiancées' ; What you might answer ; Eights days in April ; 'Five-thirty, little one, already light' ; 'How can you love me with the things I feel' ; 'Grief, and I want to take it up in you' ; It was the best week ever, but... ; La Loubiane ; Letter on August 15 ; 'On your birthday, I reread Meredith' ; 'Will one year bracket us from start to finish'

from Going back to the river (1990): Nights of 1962: the river merchant's wife ; Torch ; Riposte ; Cultural exchanges ; Going away from the river ; Les Serpillières ; Market day ; Celles ; Dinner with Elizabeth ; Separate lives ; Nights of 1964-1966: the old reliable ; Elevens ; Going back to the river

from Winter numbers (1994): Against elegies ; Nearly a valediction ; Chiliastic Sapphics ; Annunciation: 8 A.M. ; Quai Saint-Bernard ; Letter to Julie in a new decade ; Year's end ; Cancer winter ; Dusk: July ; August journal

from Squares and courtyards (2000): Scars on paper ; Days of 1994: Alexandrians ; Squares and courtyards ; Rue Debelleyme ; from Paragraphs from a day-book

Some translations. from A long-gone sun by Claire Malroux (2000): 'In violet circles' ; 'Cricket hunts are also in the evening' ; 'It was a long week of delights beginning' ; 'Beauty comes from Spain'

from Here there was once a country by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (2001): from The seven honeysuckle sprigs of wisdom

Six poems by Hédi Kaddour: The bus driver ; The scarab bookshop ; Spiritual distress ; Rue de Tournon ; Six-thirty ; Variations

'Four seasons for Jude Stéfan,' by Guy Goffette: Autumn ; Winter ; Spring ; Summer

Three poems by Emmanuel Moses: Royal blue ; Old conversations ; Café Lirico

from Desesperanto (2003): Crepuscule with Muriel ; Ghazal on half a line by Adrienne Rich ; Grief ; Migraine sonnets ; Explication de texte ; On the stairway ; Quoi de neuf sur la guerre? ; Ghazal ; Desesperanto ; Morning news ; Essay on Departure

New poems: Letter to Hayden Carruth ; Glose (Storm) ; Glose (The year of the dragon) ; Ghazal: in summer ; Letter to Mimi Khalvati ; For Kateb Yacine ; Glose (Willow) ; For Anna Akhmatova ; Ghazal: the beloved ; Ghazal: begin.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hacker, Marilyn, 1942- Essays on departure.

ISBN:

9781903039786

1903039789

OCLC:

71165306