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SENSITIVE, PROFOUND, SIMPLE & DOWN TO EARTH.
MARILYN HACKER DIGS DEEP INTO MANY RAW FEELINGS AND TRANSFORM THEM INTOTHE CELESTINES FOREVER HOUNDING AND TEARING US APART.SUCH SIMPLEIMAGERIES...CROSSING CULTURAL BORDERS. I AM A FILIPINO AND YET...IUNDERSTAND WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT.WOMEN ARE WOMEN, EVERYWHERE. ... Read more

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Bilingual Edition -- French/English

Claire Malroux is France's leading woman poet. National Book Award winner Marilyn Hacker has brilliantly translated this poetry of the present that looks back at Malroux's childhood and her father's life in the French Resistance and death at Bergen-Belsen.

In her introduction, Marilyn Hacker writes: "'I have told this story many times,' says the poet, implying, I think, that it is a story which has been told in many times and places, by different voices, to different audiences, because it is one of the quintessential human stories: how a child gains consciousness at the cost of'innocence' when s/he precisely realizes that harm is done, that the seemingly eternal moment of childhood is part of the irrevocable passage of history: not 'history' in the abstract, but that of the specific time and place in which/of which s/he becomes aware." ... Read more

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Remembering A Long Gone Sun
Claire Malroux's booklength poem sequence, A Long Gone Sun, beautifully evokes life during the '30s and '40s in a small village near Toulouse in the south of France, evidently Saint- Sulpice or nearby, where traces of that life can still be seen and felt.Certainly the memory of World War Two still lives vigorously in that milieu of the poet's father, who was active in progressive politics and the Resistance, and who died as a result. The book is a subtle tribute to him and the world he helped to preserve.Malroux's unobtrusive imagist style suits her project, an oblique autobiography without egotism, a Bildungsroman in poetic form that also meditates on history's complex impacts upon the individual.She tells the truth but tells it "slant," as Emily Dickinson recommended. The translation by Marilyn Hacker echoes with grace and fidelity the syntax and internal rhymes of the original.Hacker has done a favor for American readers by introducing both a fine writer and a time and place worthy of our thoughtful attention. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 609 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: LETTER TO MUNNSVILLE N. Y. FROM THE RUE DE TURENNE.(Poem)
Author: Marilyn Hacker
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: 58Issue: 2Page: 185

Article Type: Poem

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 419 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Essay on Departure.
Author: Marilyn Hacker
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 181Issue: 2Page: 145(3)

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