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Born in November 27, 1942 / United States / English

Poems by Marilyn Hacker

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Desesperanto

... Montaigne, De L'amitiëThe dream's forfeit was a night in jail ...

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Exiles

... sleeps on the threshold of the Third Street bar ...

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For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back

... M., sometimes I long for you all night in Provencalor langue d'oc, or wish I could, when I'm ...

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Invocation

... This is for June, whose words are lean and mean ...

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Iva's Pantoum

... You are the Little Robber Girl, whocrumbles the clay chunks, pinches ...

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Morning News

... ) What did the old men pray for in their housesof prayer, the teachers teach in schoolhouses ...

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Nearly A Valediction

... A new- born flailing toward maternal heartbeat through ...

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Paragraphs from a Day-Book

... know what to ask (I wasn’t three), and then I did, and ...

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Rune of the Finland Woman

... a Karig"You are so wise," the reindeer said, "you can bind the winds of the world in a single strand ...

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Scars on Paper

... I'm enrolled by mine in ranks where now I'm "being brave" ...

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The Boy

... except, boys shouted "Jew!" across the parkat him when he was coming home from school ...

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Year's End

... for Audre Lorde and Sonny WainwrightTwice in my quickly disappearing forties ...

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from Paragraphs from a Day-Book (section 1 only)

...   His round face, thin nose, moustache silvered gray  ...

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Days of 1994: Alexandrians

...  started; but hers was both breasts, and lymph nodes ...

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Elegy for a Soldier

... ” Afterwards, he died in despair, or so we  ...