Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hackeris an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
middle
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
pulse deep-down happened
You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.
bed swamps brilliant
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
battle
Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?
suicide eccentric brilliant
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
fairy wonderful sometimes
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
together phrases lines
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
writing together different
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
writing oddities ideas
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
musical sound syntax
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
alive scar staying-alive
With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.
children men animal
Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.
years numbers phones
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.
spiritual exercise literary-genre
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.