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Marilyn Hacker's dark, complex poetic vision has a strange, often formal, beauty to it. Yet, when she writes in Living in the Moment: "I try to be a woman I could love./ I am probably wrong, asking/ you to stay . . ." one feels a very elemental tension between hope and fear, self-loathing and the need for love. It's a tangled inner life that Hacker is opening up for our inspection, and these are beautiful and brave poems.
From Publishers Weekly
Tracing Hacker's (Assumptions) poetic development here will make an intriguing journey for both new and familiar readers of this leader of the feminist/lesbian poetry movement. Hacker's signature style-passionate, technically deft-is spotlighted in early poems such as "Elegy," paying tribute to the agonized "sandpaper/ velvet" throat of Janis Joplin. The poet has noted that "subjects choose us, not otherwise": by the 1980s, her subjects were avowedly feminist, ranging from political ideology in "Coda" to eros in "La Fontaine de Vauclause." Other poems disclose her "taking notice" of her estranged relations with her diabetic mother, and of her daughter Ira, "born hero" and "found... flawed." Recent poems find Hacker's stance forthrightly gay ("unsaintly ordinary female queers"), yet her style has become more muted, especially in written reveries about the chaotic 1960s. This collection deserves honors for its great heart and its embrace of the female condition.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
