Squares and Courtyards

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.