Different Distance: A Renga

Name: Different Distance: A Renga
Brand: Marilyn HackerKarthika Naïr
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Author: Marilyn HackerKarthika Naïr
ISBN: 9781571315519

by Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Naïr

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An Indie Next Selection for December 2021

A Ms. Magazine Recommended Read for Fall 2021

In March 2020, France declared a full lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Shortly thereafter, poets and friends Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr--living mere miles from each other but separated by circumstance, and spurred by this extraordinary time--began a correspondence in verse.

Renga, an ancient Japanese form of collaborative poetry, is comprised of alternating tanka beginning with the themes of tōki and tōza: this season, this session. Here, from the "plague spring," through a year in which seasons are marked by the waxing and waning of the virus, Hacker and Naïr's renga charts the "differents and sames" of a now-shared experience. Their poems witness a time of suspension in which some things, somehow, press on relentlessly, in which solidarity persists--even thrives--in the face of a strange new kind of isolation. Between "ten thousand, yes, minutes of Bones," there's cancer and chemotherapy and the aches of an aging body. There is grief for the loss of friends nearby and concern for loved ones in the United States, Lebanon, and India. And there is a deep sense of shared humanity, where we all are "mere atoms of water, / each captained by protons of hydrogen, hurtling earthward."

At turns poignant and playful, the seasons and sessions of A Different Distance display the compassionate, collective wisdom of two women witnessing a singular moment in history.

Publisher:: Milkweed Editions
ISBN:: 9781571315519
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 96
Authors:: Marilyn Hacker, Karthika Naïr
Published Date:: 2021-12-14
Language:: English

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About Marilyn Hacker

The debut collection Presentation Piece (Viking, 1974), by Marilyn Hacker, won the National Book Award for Poetry and the Lamont Poetry Prize. Born in New York City, Hacker has published more than a dozen books, among them Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (Arbor House, 1986), Winter Numbers (W. W. Norton, 1994), and A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014 (Norton, 2015). She works frequently in fixed forms, including the sonnet, villanelle, and sestina. Her honors include the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She translates contemporary French-language poetry.

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