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Winter Numbers: Poems

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In her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon. Winter Numbers is pervaded by Hacker's awareness of being an agent in history. The long opening poem, "Against Elegies, " is an impassioned meditation on the scourges of AIDS and cancer among the poet's friends and contemporaries, and the parallel scourge of social indifference. Other erotically tinged elegies lead to the account of her own battle with breast cancer. Among the many necessary works on breast cancer, Hacker's "Cancer Winter" will be cited for its affirmation, humor, and honesty. It received the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America and the B. F. Conners Award from the Paris Review.
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Book Details

ISBN:
9780393313734
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Marilyn Hacker
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Date:
1996-01-01
Language:
English

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About the poet: Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker (born 1942, New York City) is an American poet and translator widely regarded as one of the foremost practitioners of formal verse in contemporary American poetry. She is the author of more than a dozen collections including Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award; Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986); Winter Numbers (1994); and A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014 (Norton, 2015). Her work demonstrates that traditional forms — sonnets, villanelles, ghazals — can be powerful vehicles for feminist and erotic consciousness. She has received the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is also a prolific translator of contemporary French-language poetry.

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