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Names: Poems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

In Names, Marilyn Hacker juxtaposes glimpses of contemporary lives with dialogues undertaken in signal poetic voices. Using her signature wit, passion, and mastery of received and invented forms, she convinces us to believe in a world made possible by language—prescient, playful, polyglot, and often breathtaking.

from “Ghazal: The Beloved”:

Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved:

when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved?

Your every declaration is suspect.

That was, at least, the departing gloss of the beloved.

Were you merely a servant of the state

or of the beloved?

How pure you were, resistant in an orchard.

Peace with justice: the cause of the beloved.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: November 23, 2009

ISBN: 0393072185

ISBN 13: 9780393072181

Names: Poems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

In Names, Marilyn Hacker juxtaposes glimpses of contemporary lives with dialogues undertaken in signal poetic voices. Using her signature wit, passion, and mastery of received and invented forms, she convinces us to believe in a world made possible by language—prescient, playful, polyglot, and often breathtaking.

from “Ghazal: The Beloved”:

Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved:

when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved?

Your every declaration is suspect.

That was, at least, the departing gloss of the beloved.

Were you merely a servant of the state

or of the beloved?

How pure you were, resistant in an orchard.

Peace with justice: the cause of the beloved.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: November 23, 2009

ISBN: 0393072185

ISBN 13: 9780393072181

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