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Marilyn Hacker

October 20, 2023

Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.

Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award,[1] Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2003, Hacker won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. In 2009, she subsequently won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne,[2] which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.[3] She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation[4] for her translation of Tales of a Severed Head by Rachida Madani.

Early life and education Edit

Hacker was born and raised in Bronx, New York, the only child of Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a management consultant and her mother a teacher.[5] Hacker attended the Bronx High School of Science, where she met her future husband Samuel R. Delany, who would become a well-known science-fiction writer. She enrolled at New York University at the age of fifteen (B.A., 1964). Three years later, Hacker and Delany traveled from New York to Detroit, Michigan and were married. In The Motion of Light in Water, Delany said they married in Detroit because of age-of-consent laws and because he was African-American and she was Caucasian: "there were only two states in the union where we could legally wed. The closest one was Michigan."[6] They settled in New York's East Village. Their daughter, Iva Hacker-Delany, was born in 1974. Hacker and Delany, after being separated for many years, were divorced in 1980, but remain friends. Hacker identifies as lesbian,[7] and Delany has identified as a gay man since adolescence.[8]

In the '60s and '70s, Hacker worked mostly in commercial editing.[9] She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Romance Languages in 1964.[10]

Career Edit

Hacker's first publication was in Cornell University's Epoch.[11] After moving to London in 1970, she found an audience through the pages of The London Magazine and Ambit.[9] She and her husband edited the magazine Quark: A Quarterly of Speculative Fiction (4 issues; 1970–71). Early recognition came for her when Richard Howard, then editor of the New American Review, accepted three of Hacker's poems for publication.[9]

In 1974, when she was thirty-one, Presentation Piece was published by The Viking Press. The book was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and won the annual National Book Award for Poetry.[1] Winter Numbers, which details the loss of many of her friends to AIDS and her own struggle with breast cancer, garnered a Lambda Literary Award and The Nation's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.[11] Her Selected Poems 1965-1990 received the 1996 Poets' Prize, and Squares and Courtyards won the 2001 Audre Lorde Award.[5] She received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.[9]

Hacker often employs strict poetic forms in her poetry: for example, in Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, which is a verse novel in sonnets. She is also recognized as a master of "French forms" such as the rondeau and villanelle.[12]

In 1990 she became the first full-time editor of the Kenyon Review, a position she held until 1994. She was noted for "broaden[ing] the quarterly's scope to include more minority and marginalized viewpoints."[13] In a 2005 essay discussing the theme of food and drink in Hacker's poetry, scholar Mary Biggs describes her work as frequently referring to three "interlinked, paradoxical themes: (1) love and sex; (2) travel, exile, diaspora-counterpoised with family, community, home; and (3) the eternal and, for her, eternally positive association of women with nurturance and with homemaking in the broadest sense."[14]

Hacker served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2008 to 2014.[10]

Hacker lives in New York and Paris and has retired from teaching at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.[5]

Though not a character, a poem of Hacker's is reprinted in Heavenly Breakfast, Delany's memoir of a Greenwich Village commune in 1967; in Delany's autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water;[6] and her prose and incidents about her appear in his journals, The Journals of Samuel R. Delany: In Search of Silence, Volume 1, 1957–1969, edited by Kenneth R. James (Wesleyan University Press, 2017).

Hacker was a judge for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame. In 2014, she published a collaboration with a Palestinian-American poet, Deema Shehabi, written in the style of a Japanese renga, a form of alternating call and answer. The book, Diaspo/renga: a collaboration in alternating renga explores the emotional journey of living in exile.[15]

In a laudatory review of Hacker's 2019 collection Blazons, A. M. Juster states that "there is no poet writing in English with a better claim for the Nobel Prize in Literature than Marilyn Hacker."[16]

Bibliography Edit

Poetry Edit

  • Presentation Piece (1974) ISBN 0-670-57399-X —winner of the National Book Award[1]
  • Separations (1976) ISBN 0-394-40070-4
  • Taking Notice (1980) ISBN 0-394-51223-5
  • Assumptions 1985 ISBN 0-394-72826-2
  • Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986) ISBN 978-0-393-31225-6
  • Going Back to the River (1990) ISBN 0-394-58271-3
  • The Hang-Glider's Daughter: New and Selected Poems (1991) ISBN 0-906500-36-2
  • Selected Poems: 1965 - 1990 (1994) ISBN 978-0-393-31349-9
  • Winter Numbers: Poems (1995) ISBN 978-0-393-31373-4
  • Squares and Courtyards (2000) ISBN 978-0-393-32095-4
  • Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 (2003) ISBN 978-0-393-32630-7
  • First Cities: Collected Early Poems 1960-1979 (2003) ISBN 978-0-393-32432-7
  • Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems (2006) ISBN 1-903039-78-9
  • Names: Poems (2009) ISBN 978-0-393-33967-3
  • A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994 - 2014 (2015) ISBN 978-0-393-24464-9
  • Blazons: New and Selected Poems, 2000 - 2018 (2019), Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-784-10715-4

Translations Edit

  • Claire Malroux, Birds and Bison (2005) ISBN 1-931357-25-0
  • Étienne, Marie (2009). King of a Hundred Horsemen: Poems. Translator Marilyn Hacker. Farrar Straus Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-53192-8.
  • Rachida Madani, Tales of a Severed Head. Trans. Marilyn Hacker. New Haven: Yale UP, 2012.
  • Samira Negrouche. The Olive Trees' Jazz and Other Poems.Translator Marilyn Hacker. Pleiades Press, 2020
  • Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, That Light, All at Once, Translator, Marilyn Hacker, Yale University Press, 2020

Daybreak, Claire Malroux, Translator, Marilyn Hacker, New York Review Books, 2020 The Water People by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Translator, Marilyn Hacker, The Poetry Translation Centre, U.K. 2022

Anthologies Edit

Literary criticism Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ a b c "National Book Awards – 1975" 2011-09-09 at the Wayback Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
    (With acceptance speech by Hacker and essay by Megan Snyder-Camp from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
  2. ^ Marilyn Hacker: King of a Hundred Horsemen 2009-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ PEN Winners Announced 2010-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ . PEN America. Archived from the original on 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  5. ^ a b c "Hacker, Marilyn 1942-". Encyclopedia.com. Gale. 2009.
  6. ^ a b Delany, Samuel R. (2004). The Motion of Light in Water. University of Minnesota Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-9659037-5-3.
  7. ^ Finch, Annie; Hacker, Marilyn (1996). "Marilyn Hacker: An Interview on Form by Annie Finch". The American Poetry Review. 25 (3): 23–27. JSTOR 27782108.
  8. ^ Delany, Samuel R. "Coming/Out". In Shorter Views (Wesleyan University Press, 1999).
  9. ^ a b c d "Marilyn Hacker". Poetry Archive.
  10. ^ a b "Marilyn Hacker". Academy of American Poets.
  11. ^ a b Campo, Rafael. "About Marilyn Hacker: A Profile". Ploughshares.
  12. ^ Finch, Annie; Varnes, Kathrine (2002). An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art. University of Michigan Press. pp. 288–289. ISBN 9780472067251.
  13. ^ "A Brief History of the Kenyon Review". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  14. ^ Biggs, Mary. “Bread and Brandy: Food and Drink in the Poetry of Marilyn Hacker.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 24, no. 1, 2005, pp. 129–50, doi:10.2307/20455214.
  15. ^ "Diaspo/Renga". Holland Park Press. London. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  16. ^ Juster, A. M. (1 August 2019). "Marilyn Hacker: Rebel Traditionalist". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 8 August 2019.

External links Edit

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Marilyn Hacker born November 27 1942 is an American poet translator and critic She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece 1974 which won the National Book Award 1 Love Death and the Changing of the Seasons 1986 and Going Back to the River 1990 In 2003 Hacker won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize In 2009 she subsequently won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Etienne 2 which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series In 2010 she received the PEN Voelcker Award for Poetry 3 She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 4 for her translation of Tales of a Severed Head by Rachida Madani Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Bibliography 3 1 Poetry 3 2 Translations 3 3 Anthologies 3 4 Literary criticism 4 References 5 External linksEarly life and education EditHacker was born and raised in Bronx New York the only child of Jewish immigrant parents Her father was a management consultant and her mother a teacher 5 Hacker attended the Bronx High School of Science where she met her future husband Samuel R Delany who would become a well known science fiction writer She enrolled at New York University at the age of fifteen B A 1964 Three years later Hacker and Delany traveled from New York to Detroit Michigan and were married In The Motion of Light in Water Delany said they married in Detroit because of age of consent laws and because he was African American and she was Caucasian there were only two states in the union where we could legally wed The closest one was Michigan 6 They settled in New York s East Village Their daughter Iva Hacker Delany was born in 1974 Hacker and Delany after being separated for many years were divorced in 1980 but remain friends Hacker identifies as lesbian 7 and Delany has identified as a gay man since adolescence 8 In the 60s and 70s Hacker worked mostly in commercial editing 9 She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Romance Languages in 1964 10 Career EditHacker s first publication was in Cornell University s Epoch 11 After moving to London in 1970 she found an audience through the pages of The London Magazine and Ambit 9 She and her husband edited the magazine Quark A Quarterly of Speculative Fiction 4 issues 1970 71 Early recognition came for her when Richard Howard then editor of the New American Review accepted three of Hacker s poems for publication 9 In 1974 when she was thirty one Presentation Piece was published by The Viking Press The book was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and won the annual National Book Award for Poetry 1 Winter Numbers which details the loss of many of her friends to AIDS and her own struggle with breast cancer garnered a Lambda Literary Award and The Nation s Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 11 Her Selected Poems 1965 1990 received the 1996 Poets Prize and Squares and Courtyards won the 2001 Audre Lorde Award 5 She received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004 9 Hacker often employs strict poetic forms in her poetry for example in Love Death and the Changing of the Seasons which is a verse novel in sonnets She is also recognized as a master of French forms such as the rondeau and villanelle 12 In 1990 she became the first full time editor of the Kenyon Review a position she held until 1994 She was noted for broaden ing the quarterly s scope to include more minority and marginalized viewpoints 13 In a 2005 essay discussing the theme of food and drink in Hacker s poetry scholar Mary Biggs describes her work as frequently referring to three interlinked paradoxical themes 1 love and sex 2 travel exile diaspora counterpoised with family community home and 3 the eternal and for her eternally positive association of women with nurturance and with homemaking in the broadest sense 14 Hacker served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2008 to 2014 10 Hacker lives in New York and Paris and has retired from teaching at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center 5 Though not a character a poem of Hacker s is reprinted in Heavenly Breakfast Delany s memoir of a Greenwich Village commune in 1967 in Delany s autobiography The Motion of Light in Water 6 and her prose and incidents about her appear in his journals The Journals of Samuel R Delany In Search of Silence Volume 1 1957 1969 edited by Kenneth R James Wesleyan University Press 2017 Hacker was a judge for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine In 2013 she was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame In 2014 she published a collaboration with a Palestinian American poet Deema Shehabi written in the style of a Japanese renga a form of alternating call and answer The book Diaspo renga a collaboration in alternating renga explores the emotional journey of living in exile 15 In a laudatory review of Hacker s 2019 collection Blazons A M Juster states that there is no poet writing in English with a better claim for the Nobel Prize in Literature than Marilyn Hacker 16 Bibliography EditPoetry Edit Presentation Piece 1974 ISBN 0 670 57399 X winner of the National Book Award 1 Separations 1976 ISBN 0 394 40070 4 Taking Notice 1980 ISBN 0 394 51223 5 Assumptions 1985 ISBN 0 394 72826 2 Love Death and the Changing of the Seasons 1986 ISBN 978 0 393 31225 6 Going Back to the River 1990 ISBN 0 394 58271 3 The Hang Glider s Daughter New and Selected Poems 1991 ISBN 0 906500 36 2 Selected Poems 1965 1990 1994 ISBN 978 0 393 31349 9 Winter Numbers Poems 1995 ISBN 978 0 393 31373 4 Squares and Courtyards 2000 ISBN 978 0 393 32095 4 Desesperanto Poems 1999 2002 2003 ISBN 978 0 393 32630 7 First Cities Collected Early Poems 1960 1979 2003 ISBN 978 0 393 32432 7 Essays on Departure New and Selected Poems 2006 ISBN 1 903039 78 9 Names Poems 2009 ISBN 978 0 393 33967 3 A Stranger s Mirror New and Selected Poems 1994 2014 2015 ISBN 978 0 393 24464 9 Blazons New and Selected Poems 2000 2018 2019 Carcanet Press ISBN 978 1 784 10715 4Translations Edit Claire Malroux Birds and Bison 2005 ISBN 1 931357 25 0 Etienne Marie 2009 King of a Hundred Horsemen Poems Translator Marilyn Hacker Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN 978 0 374 53192 8 Rachida Madani Tales of a Severed Head Trans Marilyn Hacker New Haven Yale UP 2012 Samira Negrouche The Olive Trees Jazz and Other Poems Translator Marilyn Hacker Pleiades Press 2020 Jean Paul de Dadelsen That Light All at Once Translator Marilyn Hacker Yale University Press 2020Daybreak Claire Malroux Translator Marilyn Hacker New York Review Books 2020 The Water People by Venus Khoury Ghata Translator Marilyn Hacker The Poetry Translation Centre U K 2022 Anthologies Edit edited with Samuel R Delany Quark 1 1970 science fiction edited with Samuel R Delany Quark 2 1971 science fiction edited with Samuel R Delany Quark 3 1971 science fiction edited with Samuel R Delany Quark 4 1971 science fiction Literary criticism Edit Hacker Marilyn Unauthorized Voices Poets on Poetry Series University of Michigan Press 2010 References Edit a b c National Book Awards 1975 Archived 2011 09 09 at the Wayback Machine National Book Foundation Retrieved 2012 04 07 With acceptance speech by Hacker and essay by Megan Snyder Camp from the Awards 60 year anniversary blog Marilyn Hacker King of a Hundred Horsemen Archived 2009 06 29 at the Wayback Machine PEN Winners Announced Archived 2010 09 26 at the Wayback Machine PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 3 000 PEN America Archived from the original on 2013 08 06 Retrieved 2013 08 15 a b c Hacker Marilyn 1942 Encyclopedia com Gale 2009 a b Delany Samuel R 2004 The Motion of Light in Water University of Minnesota Press p 22 ISBN 0 9659037 5 3 Finch Annie Hacker Marilyn 1996 Marilyn Hacker An Interview on Form by Annie Finch The American Poetry Review 25 3 23 27 JSTOR 27782108 Delany Samuel R Coming Out In Shorter Views Wesleyan University Press 1999 a b c d Marilyn Hacker Poetry Archive a b Marilyn Hacker Academy of American Poets a b Campo Rafael About Marilyn Hacker A Profile Ploughshares Finch Annie Varnes Kathrine 2002 An Exaltation of Forms Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art University of Michigan Press pp 288 289 ISBN 9780472067251 A Brief History of the Kenyon Review The Kenyon Review Retrieved 2013 08 15 Biggs Mary Bread and Brandy Food and Drink in the Poetry of Marilyn Hacker Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature vol 24 no 1 2005 pp 129 50 doi 10 2307 20455214 Diaspo Renga Holland Park Press London Retrieved 19 April 2015 Juster A M 1 August 2019 Marilyn Hacker Rebel Traditionalist Los Angeles Review of Books Retrieved 8 August 2019 External links EditMarilyn Hacker at www poets org About Marilyn Hacker at Ploughshares Marilyn Hacker at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Marilyn Hacker s Translator s Preface to King of a Hundred Horseman Marilyn Hacker Papers Yale Collection of American Literature Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Marilyn Hacker amp oldid 1175341897, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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