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
cities paris community
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
teaching writing everyday
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
contradiction
Poetry dovetails contradictions.
teaching writing mean
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
mother teacher new-york
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
writing vocabulary example
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
broken-heart home dark
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.
thinking cities literature
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
thinking helping reader
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
thinking two way
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
thinking two french-woman
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
mean thinking people
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
book writing thinking
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
writing giving energy
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.