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008			110901s2003 nyu 000 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS3558.A28 _bD47 2003
082	0	0	_a811.54 HAC
100	1		_aHacker, Marilyn _d, 1942-
245	1	0	_aDesesperanto _b: poems, 1999-2002 _c/ Marilyn Hacker
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: W.W. Norton _c, c2003.
300			_a122 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aA 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."
650		4	_aPoetry, American
942			_cMO
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