Marilyn Hacker
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
Hacker was born and raised in
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
Hacker's first publication was in
In 1974, when she was thirty-one, Presentation Piece was published by The Viking Press. The book was a
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
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
In a review of the 2015 collection A Stranger's Mirror,
Bibliography
Poetry
- 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
- Calligraphies: Poems (2023), W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 9781324036463
Translations
- ISBN 978-0-374-53192-8.
- de Dadelsen, Jean-Paul (2020). That Light, All at Once, Translator, Marilyn Hacker, Yale University Press.
- ISBN 9780226300740
- ISBN 1-931357-25-0
- Malroux, Claire (2020). Daybreak (2020), Translator, Marilyn Hacker, New York Review Books. ISBN 9781681375021
- ISBN 978-1-55597-383-4
- Khoury-Ghata, Vénus (2022). The Water People, Translator, Marilyn Hacker, The Poetry Translation Centre, U.K.
- Madani, Rachida (2012), Tales of a Severed Head. Trans. Marilyn Hacker. New Haven: Yale UP.
- Negrouche, Samira (2020). The Olive Trees' Jazz and Other Poems. Translator Marilyn Hacker. Pleiades Press.
Anthologies
- (edited with Quark/1(1970, science fiction)
- (edited with Quark/2(1971, science fiction)
- (edited with Quark/3(1971, science fiction)
- (edited with Quark/4(1971, science fiction)
Literary criticism
- Hacker, Marilyn. Unauthorized Voices (Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press, 2010)
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ ISBN 0-9659037-5-3.
- 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.
- ISBN 9780472067251.
- ^ "A Brief History of the Kenyon Review". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
- doi:10.2307/20455214.
- ^ "Diaspo/Renga". Holland Park Press. London. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Muske-Dukes, Carol (2015-03-06). "How Tom Sleigh, Marilyn Hacker, Deborah Landau, Cecilia Woloch bear witness". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
- ^ Juster, A. M. (1 August 2019). "Marilyn Hacker: Rebel Traditionalist". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
External links
- Marilyn 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.