Rune of the Finland Woman (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
For Sára Karig "You are so wise," the reindeer said, "you can bind the winds of the world in a ...
Marilyn Hacker Poems (12 Poems)
Scars on Paper (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch, she freed my breasts from the camp Empire dress. Now one of them's ...
The Boy (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
It is the boy in me who's looking out the window, while someone across the street mends a pillowcase, clouds ...
Year’s End (Marilyn Hacker Poems)
for Audre Lorde and Sonny Wainwright Twice in my quickly disappearing forties someone called while someone I loved and I ...
Invocation (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
This is for Elsa, also known as Liz, an ample-bosomed gospel singer: five discrete malignancies in one full breast. This ...
Iva’s Pantoum (Marilyn Hacker Poems)
We pace each other for a long time. I packed my anger with the beef jerky. You are the baby ...
Morning News (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches, repeats old ...
Nearly A Valediction (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van that ...
Paragraphs from a Day-Book (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Cherry-ripe: dark sweet burlats, scarlet reverchons firm-fleshed and tart in the mouth bigarreaux, peach-and-white napoléons as the harvest moves north ...
Desesperanto (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
After Joseph Roth Parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi. Montaigne, De L'amitië The dream's forfeit was a night ...
Exiles (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Her brown falcon perches above the sink as steaming water forks over my hands. Below the wrists they shrivel and ...
For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented ...