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Desesperanto : poems, 1999-2002 / Marilyn Hacker

By:

Hacker, Marilyn, , 1942-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton , c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 122 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0393326306

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811.54 HAC

LOC classification:

PS3558.A28 D47 2003

Summary: A compulsive versifier, Hacker cranks out poem after poem with impressive force, cruising on couplets and plowing through canzones and ghazals. Hacker, a National Book Award winner, is an important writer with a large audience whose 11th collection redirects old themes of urban lesbian and gay life from romantic adventure to a wrenching acceptance of aloneness. The speaker becomes attached to places when people fail her: "I was on good terms with two rivers." But rivers are no substitute for lovers and friends, and this book elegizes many, from June Jordan to Matthew Shepard. Hacker rages against her writing students' "opinionated ignorance" in "English 182," which addresses the conscious failure of both student and teacher to move beyond egotism and need. "Desesperanto" combines French despair with the imagined world language Esperanto in a hopeless response to Adrienne Rich's "Dream of a Common Language."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811.54 HAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		063201

A compulsive versifier, Hacker cranks out poem after poem with impressive force, cruising on couplets and plowing through canzones and ghazals. Hacker, a National Book Award winner, is an important writer with a large audience whose 11th collection redirects old themes of urban lesbian and gay life from romantic adventure to a wrenching acceptance of aloneness. The speaker becomes attached to places when people fail her: "I was on good terms with two rivers." But rivers are no substitute for lovers and friends, and this book elegizes many, from June Jordan to Matthew Shepard. Hacker rages against her writing students' "opinionated ignorance" in "English 182," which addresses the conscious failure of both student and teacher to move beyond egotism and need. "Desesperanto" combines French despair with the imagined world language Esperanto in a hopeless response to Adrienne Rich's "Dream of a Common Language."

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