Blazons: New and Selected Poems, 2000-2018 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784107154)

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Special Commendation Chosen as a TLS Book of the Year 2019 This generous volume collects new work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English. Hacker writes pantoums, sonnets, canzones, ghazals and tanka; she is witty, angry, traditional, experimental. Her poetry is in open dialogue with its sources, which include W. H. Auden, Hayden Carruth, Adrienne Rich, and latterly a host of contemporary French, Francophone and Arab poets. Hacker's engagement with Arabic, almost a second language in Paris, where she lives, has led to her exchanges and engagement with Arabic-speaking immigrants and refugees in France, whose own stories and memories deepen and broaden her already polyglot oeuvre. Her poetry has been celebrated for its fusion of precise form and demotic language; with this, her latest volume, Hacker ranges further, answering Whitman's call for 'an internationality of languages'.

Author: Marilyn Hacker
ISBN-10: 1784107158
ISBN-13: 9781784107154
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2019
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d