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W. W. Norton & Company

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