Marilyn Hacker
Popular Poems
- Desesperanto
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- For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back
- Invocation
- Iva's Pantoum
- Morning News
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- Paragraphs from a Day-Book
- Rune of the Finland Woman
- Scars on Paper
- The Boy
- Year's End
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''Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercisenobody need read it, but anybody can do it.''
Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942), U.S. poet and editor. As quoted in A Gift That Cannot be Refused, ch. 7, by Mary Biggs (1990). Said in 1983. -
''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 (b. 1942), U.S. poet and editor. As quoted in How to Suppress Women's Writing, ch. 6, by Joanna Russ (1983). Said on November 2, 19...
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