{"product_id":"unauthorized-voices-marilyn-hacker-9780472051151","title":"Unauthorized Voices: Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Marilyn Hacker: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How piercing the duet we're offered between Marilyn Hacker and the reality principle. Reality saying, it's impossible, something's always sacrificed: you can't be so merry and so raw; so learned and earthy; so gut-wrenching, so danceable at once. Can you? To which, steadily, the voice of Marilyn Hacker: Yes. Evidently; Evidently so.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of \u003ci\u003eEpistemology of the Closet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTouching Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hacker is one of our best singers---by turns elegiac and fierce, sweet and witty. With each new collection her voice grows richer, more resonant, sorrowing and lovely.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Julia Alvarez, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow the Garc? Girls Lost Their Accents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marilyn Hacker joins a marvelous facility with poetic forms to a shockingly intense sensuality. Not unlike Baudelaire, you might say, and indeed like him, she shares a taste for excess, drink, Paris, women, crowds. 'Enivrez-vous!' Baudelaire ordered his readers, and Marilyn Hacker has taken his advice seriously.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Edmund White, author of \u003ci\u003eHotel de Dream, City Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLe Fl穗eur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everything is thrilling and true, fast and witty, deep and wise; her vitality is the pulse of life itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Derek Mahon, author of \u003ci\u003eHarbour Lights\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e An Autumn Wind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over twenty years, award-winning poet, translator, and editor Marilyn Hacker has been writing incisive criticism and reviews of contemporary poetry, with particular attention to the work of feminist poets, poets of color, and any poets whose work she judged worthy of more attention from the American (and sometimes British) reading public. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnauthorized Voices\u003c\/i\u003e is Hacker's first collection of critical prose, bringing together her essays on American, British, Irish, and French poets. It includes pieces on Adrienne Rich, Hayden Carruth, Elizabeth Bishop, Tony Harrison, Marilyn Nelson, and June Jordan; on French and Francophone poets including V駭us Khoury-Ghata and Guy Goffette; on poetry and politics; and on the contemporary sonnet, all affirming Hacker as a lively, unabashedly opinionated American critical voice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eNames and Essays on Departure\u003c\/i\u003e, and of ten collections of poetry translated from the French, including Marie ﾉtienne's \u003ci\u003eKing of a Hundred Horsemen\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the 2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has been the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, two Lambda Literary Awards, and the National Book Award for her own poetry and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marilyn Hacker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472051156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472051151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2011","brand":"Marilyn Hacker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079355330815,"sku":"9780472051151","price":33.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec6c7ebd-308a-46f6-8c83-5a78e46ce536.jpg?v=1685480662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unauthorized-voices-marilyn-hacker-9780472051151","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}