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Marilyn Hacker

American Poet

Born: Nov 27, 1942

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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. Marilyn Hacker

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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. Marilyn Hacker

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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. Marilyn Hacker

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories. Marilyn Hacker

Love Death Relationship Lesbian Changing Local Kind Arc About Poems More Individual Consumption Suppose Contemplative Affair Verse Histories Love Affair Fiction Urban Certain Novel Seasons Amount Here Wider

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. Marilyn Hacker

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. Marilyn Hacker

Editing Jobs Kinds Mostly Commercial Worked

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. Marilyn Hacker

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker

Good Writing Whatever Energy About Gives Good Writing

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. Marilyn Hacker

Phone Before Living Address Phone Number Had Studio Bought Since Years Began Same Apartment Then Lived Four Number

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. Marilyn Hacker

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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. Marilyn Hacker

Myself Me Together Writing Technically Translation Way Poem Investment Put Look Equally Without Makes How Personal Closely Different Different Way

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Marilyn Hacker

Together Architecture Lyric Those Some Poem Poems More Individual Take Written Read Narrative Fixed Movement Moment Moments Each Descriptive

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