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Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen volumes of poems. Her honors include the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She lives in Paris.

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen volumes of poems. Her honors include the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She lives in Paris.

Awards

Winner — Poet's Prize, 1995

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1994

Winner — Lambda Literary Award, 1995

Winner — Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, 1995

Books by Marilyn Hacker

  • Calligraphies: Poems

    Marilyn Hacker

    E Book

    A formally brilliant and powerful volume from “one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today” (Carol Muske-Dukes,Los Angeles Times).
  • Names: Poems

    Marilyn Hacker

    Paperback, 2011

    “[Hacker] powerfully brings her formal mastery and her political sensibility together.”—American Poet
  • Calligraphies: Poems

    Marilyn Hacker

    Paperback, 2023

    A formally brilliant and powerful volume from “one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today” (Carol Muske-Dukes,Los Angeles Times).