Selected Poems: 1965-1990

Hacker, Marilyn

ISBN 10: 0393036758 / ISBN 13: 9780393036756

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1994

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250p., very good first edition in cloth boards and dj. Lesbian poet and winner of the Lambda Literary Award & the National Book Award.

Seller Inventory # 38532

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems: 1965-1990
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393036758
• ISBN 13: 9780393036756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern first edition
  • Poetry
  • 1960S
  • 1980S
  • 1970S

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Synopsis

Here is a rich collection of work from five books by one of America's most controversial poets.

Marilyn Hacker's poems have been praised for their technical virtuosity, forthright feminism, political acuity, and unabashed eroticism.

Included are selections from Hacker's first book, Presentation Piece (1974), the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award Winner; Separations (1976); Taking Notice (1980), which was claimed as an integral part of the burgeoning feminist and lesbian canon; Assumptions (1985), which explored the conundrums of gender, race, and identity in contemporary life; and Going Back to the River (1990), which received a Lambda Literary Award.

About the Author

Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen volumes of poems. Her honors include the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She lives in Paris.