Poems by Marilyn Hacker
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Desesperanto
... Montaigne, De L'amitiëThe dream's forfeit was a night in jail ...
Exiles
... sleeps on the threshold of the Third Street bar ...
For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back
... M., sometimes I long for you all night in Provencalor langue d'oc, or wish I could, when I'm ...
Invocation
... This is for June, whose words are lean and mean ...
Iva's Pantoum
... You are the Little Robber Girl, whocrumbles the clay chunks, pinches ...
Morning News
... ) What did the old men pray for in their housesof prayer, the teachers teach in schoolhouses ...
Nearly A Valediction
... A new- born flailing toward maternal heartbeat through ...
Paragraphs from a Day-Book
... know what to ask (I wasnt three), and then I did, and ...
Rune of the Finland Woman
... a Karig"You are so wise," the reindeer said, "you can bind the winds of the world in a single strand ...
Scars on Paper
... I'm enrolled by mine in ranks where now I'm "being brave" ...
The Boy
... except, boys shouted "Jew!" across the parkat him when he was coming home from school ...
Year's End
... for Audre Lorde and Sonny WainwrightTwice in my quickly disappearing forties ...
from Paragraphs from a Day-Book (section 1 only)
... His round face, thin nose, moustache silvered gray ...
Days of 1994: Alexandrians
... started; but hers was both breasts, and lymph nodes ...
Elegy for a Soldier
... ” Afterwards, he died in despair, or so we ...
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