.png){kind=logo}
13%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
A Stranger´s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014
Marilyn Hacker
€ 24.99
€ 21.78
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for A Stranger´s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014
Paperback. A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in A Stranger's Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp. In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafes, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas: a refugee camp on the Turkish/Syrian border; contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet; intimate and international exchanges abbreviated on ... Read more
Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in A Stranger's Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp. In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafes, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas: a refugee camp on the Turkish/Syrian border; contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet; intimate and international exchanges abbreviated on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
246g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393353310
SKU
V9780393353310
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker is the recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her collection Winter Numbers received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Paris, France.
Reviews for A Stranger´s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014
A major poet ... she transcends the very material she collects and alters.
Grace Shulman - Kenyon Review Online For Hacker devotees ... an essential book; for people just discovering her work it is a beginning.
Lambda Literary Stands as a textured but unified testament to [Hacker's] output over the past two decades. ... Read more
Grace Shulman - Kenyon Review Online For Hacker devotees ... an essential book; for people just discovering her work it is a beginning.
Lambda Literary Stands as a textured but unified testament to [Hacker's] output over the past two decades. ... Read more