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Winter Numbers: Poems
Winner:Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize -Poetry (1995)
In her seventh volume Marilyn Hacker confronts life and death at the end of our genocidal century, making another extraordinary contribution to the feminist and lesbian canon. Winter Numbers is pervaded by Hacker's awareness of being an agent in history. The long opening poem, "Against Elegies, " is an impassioned meditation on the scourges of AIDS and cancer among the poet's friends and contemporaries, and the parallel scourge of social indifference. Other erotically tinged elegies lead to the account of her own battle with breast cancer. Among the many necessary works on breast cancer, Hacker's "Cancer Winter" will be cited for its affirmation, humor, and honesty. It received the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America and the B. F. Conners Award from the Paris Review.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jan 17th, 1996
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.24in - 5.54in - 0.35in - 0.33lb
- EAN: 9780393313734
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Hacker, Marilyn: - Marilyn Hacker is the author of nineteen volumes of poems. Her honors include the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She lives in Paris.
Praise for this book
Winter Numbers is her strongest book to date. -- Grace Shulman
Winter Numbers is her strongest book to date.--Grace Shulman
Through the terrors of death, history, pain, and love, Marilyn Hacker's mind moves like a laser beam. These poems are among the most incisive pieces of writing we have. As for the writing, the poetry, it is brilliant. --Hayden Carruth"
Winter Numbers is Hacker at the top of her form, bending rhyme and meter to her uses, dazzling us with her formalist prowess and breaking our hearts with her impassioned narrative. --Maxine Kumin"
Winter Numbers is her strongest book to date. --Grace Shulman"